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  • Their wires led to an electro-encephalograph-an EEG-and instantly the displays lit up, displaying the rhythms of deepest sleep, a sleep verging on coma.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • Their wires led to an electro-encephalograph-an EEG-and instantly the displays lit up, displaying the rhythms of deepest sleep, a sleep verging on coma.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2000

  • I saw Jonathan give them a swift sweep of the eyes and supposed he could identify the lot, and he said afterwards that they had all seemed to be standard machines for measuring body changes - cardiograph, encephalograph, gauges for temperature, respiration and skin moisture - and there had been at least two of each.

    Twice shy Francis, Dick, 1920- 1981

  • With a couple of electrodes on the skull the encephalograph now produces pen-and-ink traces which bear some relation to the electrical phenomena going on in the brain itself.

    As We May Think 1969

  • The Ship Who Sang By: Anne McCaffrey The Ship Who Sang She was born a thing and as such would be condemned if she failed to pass the encephalograph test required of all newborn babies.

    The Ship Who Sang McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969

  • She was born a thing and as such would be condemned if she failed to pass the encephalograph test required of all newborn babies.

    the ship who sang McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969

  • The ax came down on the encephalograph and Berry burst into tears and allowed Titus to lead him away.

    I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon Richard Sabia 1963

  • Then he knew that he was not on a bed, but on a robomedic, and the tubes would be for medication and wound drainage and intravenous feeding, and the wires would be to electrodes imbedded in his body for diagnosis, and the crown-of-thorns thing would be more electrodes for an encephalograph.

    Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

  • The instrument used is an electro-encephalograph, and the recording of the fluctuating potentials is an electroencephalogram.

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • It can't be the brain waves we detect with an encephalograph equipment or we would have been selling commercial telepathic equipment long since.

    Time For The Stars Heinlein, Robert A. 1956

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