tomography
Imaging by sections or sectioningImaging by (virtual) sections or sectioning.
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» Fortunately, the tomography doesn't show any skull fractures.
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1 senses(countable, uncountable)Imaging by (virtual) sections or sectioning.
Tomografie
томогра́фияtomográfija
- (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body
Examples
4 sentencesFortunately, the tomography doesn't show any skull fractures.
They did a tomography on Sami and they found no fractures.
Positron Emission Tomography uses a radioactive tracer to visualize metabolic activity within the human body.
But computerized axial tomography, better known as a helical CT scan, provided doctors with far greater detail.
Translations
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Origin
From tomo- + -graphy.From tomo- + -graphy.
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Forms
plural: tomographies| Singular | tomography |
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Synonyms
1 synonyms- (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body:imaging
Word family
19 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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