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flat electroencephalogram

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flat electroencephalogram
n.
An electroencephalogram indicating the absence of electric potentials of cerebral origin, indicative under certain specified conditions of cerebral death. Also called isoelectric electroencephalogram.
flat electroencephalogram,
a graphic chart on which no tracings are recorded during electroencephalography, indicating a lack of brain wave activity. Flat readings are indicative of brain death except in cases of profound hypothermia and central nervous system depression. Also called isoelectric electroencephalogram. See also brain death.


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