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 Dictionary entry overview: What does CT mean? 

• CT (noun)
  The noun CT has 2 senses:

1. a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies

2. a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis

  Familiarity information: CT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A New England state; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Connecticut; Constitution State; CT; Ct.; Nutmeg State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "CT"):

Bridgeport (a port in southwestern Connecticut on Long Island Sound)

Farmington (a residential town in central Connecticut)

capital of Connecticut; Hartford (the state capital of Connecticut; located in central Connecticut on the Connecticut river; a center of the insurance business)

New Haven (a city in southwestern Connecticut; site of Yale University)

New London (a town in southeastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound; an important whaling center in the 19th century)

Waterbury (a city in west central Connecticut)

Housatonic; Housatonic River (a river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound)

Long Island Sound (a sound between Long Island and Connecticut)

Taconic Mountains (a range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont)

Holonyms ("CT" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

CAT; computed axial tomography; computed tomography; computerized axial tomography; computerized tomography; CT

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

X-radiation; X-raying (obtaining images by the use of X rays)

 Context examples 

It involves the pairing of the machine used to deliver external beam radiaotherapy with a CT scanner.

(CT on Rails, NCI Thesaurus)

CT (Computerized (Axial) Tomography) scanner is a special kind of machine which directs a series of X-ray pulses through the body, to produce detailed pictures of internal body structures.

(CT Scanner, NCI Thesaurus)

Computed tomography (CT) is a type of imaging.

(CT Scans, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

An artifact in a CT image.

(CT Image Artifact, NCI Thesaurus)

The International Electrotechnical Commission preferred expression of radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) dosimetry.

(Computed Tomography Dose Index Volume, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called C-11 choline PET-CT scan.

(carbon-11 choline PET-CT scan, NCI Dictionary)

Also called computed tomography colonography, CT colonography, CTC, and virtual colonoscopy.

(Computed tomographic colonography, NCI Dictionary)

Also called CT angiography and CTA.

(Computed tomography angiography, NCI Dictionary)

Also called computed tomographic colonography, CT colonography, CTC, and virtual colonoscopy.

(Computed tomography colonography, NCI Dictionary)

In the trial, low-dose spiral CT scans were compared with chest x-rays for their ability to detect lung cancer early.

(National Lung Screening Trial, NCI Dictionary)