COMPUTERIZED AXIAL TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER

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Meaning:

A tomograph that constructs a 3-D model of an object by combining parallel planes

Synonyms:

CAT scanner; computerized axial tomography scanner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("computerized axial tomography scanner" is a kind of...):

tomograph (X-ray machine in which a computer builds a detailed image of a particular plane through an object from multiple X-ray measurements)

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