ULTRASONOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ultrasonography mean? 

• ULTRASONOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun ULTRASONOGRAPHY 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: ULTRASONOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ULTRASONOGRAPHY (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 ("ultrasonography" 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 "ultrasonography"):

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)

 Context examples 

An image of the heart produced by ultrasonography.

(Echocardiogram, NCI Thesaurus)

Pregnant women are now recommended to undergo two ultrasonography tests during the prenatal period, as an attempt to identify neurological alterations during pregnancy.

(Brazil: Babies of mothers infected with Zika will be monitored for up to 3 years, Agência Brasil)