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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device that produces cross-sectional x-rays of metabolic processes by means of positron emission tomography.
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- noun a tomograph that produces cross-sectional X-rays of metabolic processes in the body
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[p(ositron) e(mission) t(omography).]
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