ECHOGRAPHY
Dictionary entry overview: What does echography mean? • ECHOGRAPHY (noun)
The noun ECHOGRAPHY has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: ECHOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ECHOGRAPHY (noun)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
echography; sonography; ultrasonography; ultrasound
Hypernyms ("echography" is a kind of...):
prenatal diagnosis (any of the diagnostic procedures used to determine whether a fetus has a genetic abnormality)
imaging; tomography ((medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body)
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