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tomography
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tomography has 1 sense
- tomography(n = noun.act) imaging - (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body; Array is a kind of pictorial representation, picturing
has particulars: x-radiation, x-raying, echography, sonography, ultrasonography, ultrasound, pet, positron emission tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, mri, radiology, radioscopy
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tomography, n. a method of radiography displaying details in a selected plane within the body.
Etymology
Gk tome a cutting + -GRAPHY
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