tomography
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1. (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body (noun.act)
| hyponym | : | echography, sonography, ultrasonography, ultrasound, |
| definition | : | using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | pet, positron emission tomography, |
| definition | : | using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain) (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | radiology, radioscopy, |
| definition | : | (radiology) examination of the inner structure of opaque objects using X rays or other penetrating radiation (noun.act) |
| domain category | : | medical specialty, medicine, |
| definition | : | the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques (noun.cognition) |
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