Cranial probe

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A cranial probe may be a special scan for physical injuries of the brain.

Understanding that their rescued guest has no memory of the crash that stranded him on a habitable but lifeless planet, Adama orders that Iblis be given a cranial probe and psycho-electron recall after his rescue by the Colonials (War of the Gods, Part I).