tomography
pronunciation
How to pronounce tomography in British English:
UK [təˈmɒɡrəfi]
How to pronounce tomography in American English:
US [təˈmɑːɡrəfi]
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- Noun:
- (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body
Word Origin
- tomography (n.)
- 1935, from comb. form of Greek tomos "slice, section" (see tome) + -graphy.
Example
- 1. The relationship between stroke and cerebral arteriosclerosis evidenced by computed tomography .
- 2. And although asimov 's " positronic " brains do not exist , positrons are indeed used to probe human brains in positron-emission tomography ( pet ) scanning .
- 3. The independent predictive utility of computed tomography angiographic collateral status in acute ischaemic stroke .
- 4. As they describe in biomedical optics express , dr leitgeb and his colleagues are exploring a technique called optical coherence tomography , which they think will allow skin cancer to be diagnosed in situ .
- 5. The using technology of computer tomography to derive electrom density distribution from height and latitude .