Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
A form of radiography which uses computer software to create images, or slices, at various planes of depth from images taken around a body or volume of interest. Sometimes called “computerized tomography”. (The radiation used is X-rays unless otherwise specified.)
Such imaging applied to health care.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: CT
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tomography, imaging
A form of radiography which uses computer software to create images, or slices, at various planes of depth from images taken around a body or volume of interest. Sometimes called “computerized tomography”. (The radiation used is X-rays unless otherwise specified.)
Such imaging applied to industrial inspection or to security at airports, seaports, large public venues, and so on.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: CT
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tomography, imaging
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: computerized tomography, CT, computerized axial tomography, computed axial tomography, CAT
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: X-raying, X-radiation
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
-
Chinese Mandarin:
電腦斷層掃描 /电脑断层扫描
(diànnǎo duàncéng sǎomiáo)
— form of radiography which uses computer software
-
Chinese Mandarin:
計算機體層成像 /计算机体层成像
(jìsuànjī tǐcéng chéngxiàng)
— form of radiography which uses computer software
-
Czech:
počítačová tomografie
— form of radiography which uses computer software
-
Czech:
výpočetní tomografie
— form of radiography which uses computer software
-
Esperanto:
komputila tomografio
— form of radiography which uses computer software
-
Finnish:
tietokonetomografia
— form of radiography which uses computer software
-
Finnish:
tietokonekerroskuvaus
— form of radiography which uses computer software
-
German:
Computertomographie
— form of radiography which uses computer software
-
Irish:
tomografaíocht ríomhairithe
— form of radiography which uses computer software
-
Italian:
tomografia computerizzata
— form of radiography which uses computer software
-
Japanese:
コンピュータ断層撮影
(Konpyūta dansō satsuei)
— form of radiography which uses computer software
-
Russian:
компью́терная томогра́фия
(kompʹjúternaja tomográfija)
— form of radiography which uses computer software
-
Spanish:
tomografía computerizada
— form of radiography which uses computer software
-
Xibe:
ᠰᡟᡞ ᡨᡞ
(syi ti)
— form of radiography which uses computer software
