/ɪˈmɪʤɪŋ/ - [imijing] - im•ag•ing
We found 7 definitions of imaging from 4 different sources.
NounPlural: imagings |
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imaging - (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body | ||
tomography | ||
pictorial representation, picturing visual representation as by photography or painting | ||
medical specialty, medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard" | ||
x-raying, x-radiation obtaining images by the use of X rays | ||
echography, sonography, ultrasonography, ultrasound 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 | ||
positron emission tomography, pet using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain) | ||
magnetic resonance imaging, mri the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images | ||
imaging - the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination" | ||
imagination, imagery, mental imagery | ||
representational process any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else | ||
mind's eye the imaging of remembered or invented scenes; "I could see her clearly in my mind's eye" | ||
vision the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light" | ||
envisioning, picturing visual imagery | ||
dreaming, dream a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream" | ||
chimera, chimaera a grotesque product of the imagination | ||
evocation imaginative re-creation |