ECHOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does echography mean? 

• ECHOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun ECHOGRAPHY has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: ECHOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECHOGRAPHY (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 organs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

echography; sonography; ultrasonography; ultrasound

Hypernyms ("echography" 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 "echography"):

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)