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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Ultrasonography.
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- noun
ultrasonography
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- noun 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
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Examples
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Currently the college offers an associate's degree in sonography, which is a method to make body images with sound waves.
Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2010
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Currently the college offers an associate's degree in sonography, which is a method to make body images with sound waves.
Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal 2010
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Currently the college offers an associate's degree in sonography, which is a method to make body images with sound waves.
Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal 2010
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Various methods are used to evaluate varicose veins before surgery, including ascending venography and duplex sonography, which is the "reference standard for noninvasive anatomic and functional assessment of venous reflux," the researchers said.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2008
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Large fetal lung tumors may regress in size on serial prenatal sonography, illustrating that improvement can occur during fetal life.
Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid 2010
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For these reasons, close surveillance of gastroschisis in the third trimester using a combination of sonography and fetal surveillance testing (biophysical profile, Doppler ultrasound, amniotic fluid volume) is important to monitoring fetal well-being and determining the appropriate time of delivery.
Gastroschisis 2010
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The SCORE study's purpose is to find new imaging methods, such as advanced magnetic resonance imaging techniques and transcranial color Doppler sonography, that can detect strokes earlier than current methods.
Sickle cell disease research at The Children's Hospital 2010
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Babcook CJ, Hedrick MH, Filly RA, Goldstein RB, Callen PW, Harrison MR, et al. Gastroschisis: can sonography of the fetal bowel accurately predict postnatal outcome?
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Take, for instance, the use of three-dimensional sonography to study the fetus.
Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010
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Medical sonography is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging technique used to visualize many internal organs without ionizing radiation.
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