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CT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis

Synonyms:

CAT; computed axial tomography; computed tomography; computerized axial tomography; computerized tomography; CT

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("CT" is a kind of...):

X-radiation; X-raying (obtaining images by the use of X rays)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A New England state; one of the original 13 colonies

Synonyms:

Connecticut; Constitution State; CT; Ct.; Nutmeg State

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "CT"):

Bridgeport (a port in southwestern Connecticut on Long Island Sound)

Farmington (a residential town in central Connecticut)

capital of Connecticut; Hartford (the state capital of Connecticut; located in central Connecticut on the Connecticut river; a center of the insurance business)

New Haven (a city in southwestern Connecticut; site of Yale University)

New London (a town in southeastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound; an important whaling center in the 19th century)

Waterbury (a city in west central Connecticut)

Housatonic; Housatonic River (a river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound)

Long Island Sound (a sound between Long Island and Connecticut)

Taconic Mountains (a range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont)

Holonyms ("CT" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A CT number underestimation artifact resulting from the presence of a dense object off center in a scan field.

(Partial Volume Artifact, NCI Thesaurus)

A procedure that combines the pictures from a positron emission tomography (PET) scan and a computed tomography (CT) scan.

(PET-CT scan, NCI Dictionary)

Also called CT-2103, paclitaxel poliglumex, and Xyotax.

(Paclitaxel polyglutamate, NCI Dictionary)

Also called CT-2103, paclitaxel polyglutamate, and Xyotax.

(Paclitaxel poliglumex, NCI Dictionary)

NMRI makes better images of organs and soft tissue than other scanning techniques, such as computed tomography (CT) or x-ray.

(NMRI, NCI Dictionary)

Visibly abnormal tissue on a magnetic resonance image (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) that does not enhance with contrast and is not edema.

(Non-Contrast Enhancing Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging makes better images of organs and soft tissue than other scanning techniques, such as computed tomography (CT) or x-ray.

(Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, NCI Dictionary)

Also called carbon-11 choline PET-CT scan.

(C-11 choline PET-CT scan, NCI Dictionary)

Identification numbers assigned to the protocol by ct.gov, EudraCT, or other registries.

(Clinical Trial Registry Identifier, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Also called CT-322 and VEGFR-2 inhibitor CT-322.

(Angiocept, NCI Dictionary)