THERMOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thermography mean? 

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

1. diagnostic technique using a thermograph to record the heat produced by different parts of the body; used to study blood flow and to detect tumors

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THERMOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Diagnostic technique using a thermograph to record the heat produced by different parts of the body; used to study blood flow and to detect tumors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

diagnostic procedure; diagnostic technique (a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis)

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

mammothermography (the use of thermography to detect breast tumors (which appear as hot spots))

 Context examples 

The ideal case would be to combine both methods, strategic interviewing and thermography, moving our system to, for example, police stations, airports or refugee camps.

(The most reliable scientific model to date for detecting when a person is lying, based on thermography, University of Granada)

This method, which uses thermography techniques, is based on the so‑called ‘Pinocchio Effect’: when a person is lying, the temperature of the nose decreases while that of the forehead increases, among other facial thermal changes.

(The most reliable scientific model to date for detecting when a person is lying, based on thermography, University of Granada)

The researchers point out that this system is more accurate than the famous polygraph –a measuring instrument used for recording physiological responses– and other brain‑imaging techniques used in research, since thermography offers an accuracy of up to 80% (10% higher than that of the polygraph).

(The most reliable scientific model to date for detecting when a person is lying, based on thermography, University of Granada)