See Also: Plummer's dilator(medicine)
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Dilator(health)

electroencephalograph (medicine) and Plummer's dilator (medicine)


electroencephalograph (medicine)


electroencephalograph


A system for recording the electric potentials of the brain derived from electrodes attached to the scalp.

Origin: electro-+ G. Encephalon, brain, + grapho, to write


Plummer's dilator (medicine)


Plummer's dilator


An instrument for dilating the lower end of the oesophagus in cardiospasm; it consists of a rubber tube with a perforated metal tip, and a dilatable elongated balloon near its lower end; in difficult cases the tube is threaded along a guiding thread swallowed by the patient.