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    SONOGRAPHY

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    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 organsplay

    Synonyms:

    echography; sonography; ultrasonography; ultrasound

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    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("sonography" is a kind of...):

    prenatal diagnosis (any of the diagnostic procedures used to determine whether a fetus has a genetic abnormality)

    imaging; tomography ((medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sonography"):

    A-scan ultrasonography (the use of ultrasonography to measure the length of the eyeball)

    B-scan ultrasonography (the use of ultrasonography to view structure in the back of the eye)

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