| NOUN | cognition | imaging, imagination, imagery, mental imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events |
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| act | imaging, tomography | (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body |
| Sounds | ih'mihjhihng | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng... | |
| Meaning | The ability to form mental images of things or events. | |
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| Synonyms | imagination, imagery, mental imagery | |
| Narrower | chimera, chimaera | A grotesque product of the imagination |
| dream, dreaming | A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep / sleep | |
| evocation | imaginative re-creation | |
| mind's eye | The imaging of remembered or invented scenes | |
| picturing, envisioning | visual imagery | |
| pretense, pretence, make-believe | imaginative intellectual play | |
| vision | A vivid mental image | |
| Broader | representational process | Any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else |
| Spanish | imagen mental, imagen, representación mental, representación | |
| Catalan | imatge mental, imatge, imatgeria, representació mental, representació | |
| Verbs | image | imagine |
| Meaning | (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body. | |
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| Synonym | tomography | |
| Category | medicine, medical specialty | The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |
| Narrower | X-raying, X-radiation | Obtaining images by the use of X rays |
| magnetic resonance imaging, MRI | The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images | |
| positron emission tomography, PET | Using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain) | |
| radioscopy, radiology | (radiology) examination of the inner structure of opaque objects using X rays or other penetrating radiation | |
| sonography, ultrasonography, echography, ultrasound | Using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram) | |
| Broader | pictorial representation, picturing | visual representation as by photography or painting |
| Spanish | tomografía | |
| Catalan | tomografia | |
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