imaging
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1. (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body (noun.act)
| hyponym | : | echography, sonography, ultrasonography, ultrasound, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | pet, positron emission tomography, |
| definition | : | using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain) (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | radiology, radioscopy, |
| definition | : | (radiology) examination of the inner structure of opaque objects using X rays or other penetrating radiation (noun.act) |
| domain category | : | medical specialty, medicine, |
| definition | : | the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques (noun.cognition) |
2. the ability to form mental images of things or events (noun.cognition)
| hypernym | : | representational process, |
| definition | : | any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | mind's eye, |
| definition | : | the imaging of remembered or invented scenes (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | vision, |
| definition | : | a vivid mental image (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | dream, dreaming, |
| definition | : | a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | chimaera, chimera, |
| definition | : | a grotesque product of the imagination (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | evocation, |
| definition | : | imaginative re-creation (noun.cognition) |
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