| NOUN | act | tomography, imaging | (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body |
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| Meaning | (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body. | |
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| Synonym | imaging | |
| 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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