POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A tomograph that produces cross-sectional X-rays of metabolic processes in the body

Synonyms:

PET scanner; positron emission tomography scanner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("positron emission 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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