SONOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sonography mean? 

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SONOGRAPHY (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 ("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)

 Context examples 

A description of general breast tissue composition as obtained by sonography.

(Breast Background Echotexture, NCI Thesaurus)

A description of homogeneous fibroglandular elements seen in a tissue composition image obtained by sonography.

(Homogeneous Fibroglandular Echotexture, NCI Thesaurus)

A description of homogeneous fat lobules seen in a tissue composition image obtained by sonography.

(Homogeneous Fat Echotexture, NCI Thesaurus)

A description of heterogeneous density elements seen in a tissue composition image obtained by sonography.

(Heterogeneous Echotexture, NCI Thesaurus)

Tissue composition of the breast noted on sonography.

(Breast Background Echotexture, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

A procedure, also known as sonohysterography or saline infusion sonography, using a minimally invasive ultrasound technique to view the inside of the uterus.

(Hysterosonography, NCI Thesaurus)