Definition of tomography Tomography
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We found 3 definitions of tomography from 3 different sources.
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What does tomography mean?
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| tomography - (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body | ||
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| 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 | ||
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Part of speech
🔤- tomography, noun, singular of tomographies.
