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Tomography Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ography

Tomography has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

(medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body

"The doctor ordered a CT tomography scan to get detailed pictures of the fracture inside my leg without cutting me open."

2

Imaging by sections or sectioning.

"The doctor used tomography to create detailed cross-sectional images of the patient's brain without overlapping shadows from other tissues."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
pictorial representation
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
X-raying sonography positron emission tomography magnetic resonance imaging radioscopy
Rhyming Words
sophy hyphy dunphy trophy brophy furphy graphy ralphy prophy oomphy morphy osophy adelphy atrophy rrhaphy ecosophy mcmurphy geosophy algraphy eutrophy
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