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ECHOGRAPHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
echography; sonography; ultrasonography; ultrasound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("echography" is a kind of...):
prenatal diagnosis (any of the diagnostic procedures used to determine whether a fetus has a genetic abnormality)
imaging; tomography ((medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "echography"):
A-scan ultrasonography (the use of ultrasonography to measure the length of the eyeball)
B-scan ultrasonography (the use of ultrasonography to view structure in the back of the eye)
