Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several techniques for making detailed x-rays of a predetermined plane section of a solid object while blurring out the images of other planes.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body
Etymologies
- tomo- + -graphy (Wiktionary)
- Greek tomos, section; see tome + -graphy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Computerized tomography is destined to become the standard diagnotic imagary technique even in small medical clinics and dental offices in the near future.”
“Today, computerized tomography is an established method for the examination of all the organ systems of the body.”
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979 - Presentation Speech
“Advanced mechanisms: stops the production of CSF; expels as much Trauma Life Support in the first evaluation is important, CSF as it can; contracts as many blood vessels as it can, in along with head computerized tomography, which is useful to order to prevent the inflow of more blood. identify surgical cases or anatomical lesions, and intracranial Nevertheless, this mechanism may not be enough; pressure monitoring.”
“In the end it was a specialist in their native Belgium, Steven Laureys of the coma science group at Liège University, who through a technique known as a tomography brain scan determined that Houben's cerebrum was functioning normally.”
“- the kind of three-dimensional picture of an otherwise invisible interior that's called tomography, as in computed axial tomography, the familiar CAT scan.”
“PLECHA: But there are other things coming out in the future such as tomography of the breast, which is another way of looking at the breast with similar to mammography but looking at it almost like a CT scan and slicing the breast into thin sections.”
“Step 1 of the preemie research uses a technology called optical coherence tomography, or OCT, that beams light to create a map of the back of the eye, showing the retina's layers in exquisite detail.”
“Hardy OT, Hernandez-Pampaloni M, Saffer JR, Scheuermann JS, Ernst LM, Freifelder R, et al. Accuracy of [18F] fluorodopa positron emission tomography for diagnosing and localizing focal congenital hyperinsulinism.”
“Computerized tomography scan (Also called CT or CAT scan)”
“CT scan (computerized tomography) or MRI scan (magnetic resonance imaging).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tomography’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 more...
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The Latin Doctor is Greek to me
Biology Students, Gladiators, Devil Dogs & Harry Potter
et tu, semper fidelis, carpe diem, cui bono, pons asinorum, limbus, e pluribus unum, sine qua non, quidnunc, lacus oblivionis, quincunx, experimentum crucis and 128 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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-tome
denoting an instrument for cutting; denoting a section or fragment
microtome, myotome, osteotome, cyclostome, dermotome, deuterostome, distome, ultramicrotome, episiotomy, tomography, dichotomous, dichotomy and 1 more...
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Word Gems
foist, coercion, abecedism, abiectic, abigeus, abiogenesis, ablaut, thunderstruck, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, filagree, blotto and 196 more...
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Loxodont's list
circumambulate, atelectasis, paramount, therefore, apotropaic, facture, identity, dome, lecture, cannibal, catatonia, rite and 119 more...
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M'ogle
As to feature the creature "mog".
cosmogony, transmogrify, glom, golem, mog, mogul, moggy, smog, demogenic, cormogeny, seismograph, primogenitor and 359 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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PSY301
bluntly, disenchanted, disenchant, decipher, schizophrenia, mitigate, positron, tomography, saltatory, refractory, deficiency
Tweets
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