pneumoencephalography

English

Etymology

From pneumo- +‎ encephalography.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

Noun

pneumoencephalography (countable and uncountable, plural pneumoencephalographies)

1. A former medical procedure in which most of the cerebrospinal fluid was drained from around the brain and replaced with air, oxygen, or helium to allow the structure of the brain to show up more clearly on an X-ray image.