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The use of ultrasound to produce images of the hidden interior of objects or spaces.
Medical ultrasonography: The use of ultrasound to produce diagnostic images of the internal organs of the body, or of a foetus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: US, ultrasound, echography, sonography
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: imaging
The use of ultrasound to produce images of the hidden interior of objects or spaces.
The use of ultrasound to form images of underwater structures.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: US, ultrasound
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: imaging
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sonography, echography, ultrasound
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: prenatal diagnosis, imaging, tomography
Narrower terms: A-scan ultrasonography, B-scan ultrasonography
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2el- Latin ūls Proto-Indo-European *-teros? Latin -ter Old Latin -ād Latin -ā Latin ultrābor. English ultra- Proto-Indo-European *swenh2- Proto-Indo-European *swónh2os Latin sonus English sono- Proto-Indo-European *gerbh- Proto-Hellenic *grə́phō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor. French -graphieder. English -graphy English sonography English ultrasonography From ultra- + sonography.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
ecografia
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Czech:
ultrasonografie
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Danish:
ultralyd
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Dutch:
echografie
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French:
échographie
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Galician:
ecografía
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Greek:
υπερηχογραφία
(yperichografía)
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Indonesian:
ultrasonografi
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Italian:
ecografia
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Norwegian:
ultralyd
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Polish:
ultrasonografia
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Portuguese:
ecografia
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Portuguese:
ultrassonografia
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Portuguese:
ultrassom
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Spanish:
ecografía
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Turkish:
ultrasonografi
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Ukrainian:
узд
(uzd)
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Ukrainian:
ультразвукове дослідження
(ulʹtrazvukove doslidžennja)
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