sonographyn.
/səˈnɒɡrəfi/, /sɒˈnɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /səˈnɑɡrəfi/ΚΠ
1869 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 23 Dec. 3/5 Sonography. Taking instantaneous pictures of sound.
2. Any of various phonetic writing systems; esp. one invented by Charles Barbier (1767–1841) employing combinations of raised dots representing particular phonemes. Now historical.Barbier's system was originally developed as a code which allowed night-time communication between soldiers without the need for light or sound; in its subsequent use with blind people, it formed the basis for Braille (see Braille n.).
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society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > symbolic writing > phonetic
phonography1701
phonetism1848
visible speech1865
sonography1887
1887 D. S. Davies Man. Sonogr. 56 The Reading Exercises were not intended to give the very shortest style of writing Sonography.
1904 W. E. Thomson tr. É. Javal Blind Man's World xxvii. 131 Braille sonography [Fr. Sonographie Braille]. This..denotes a phonographic and alphabetic hybrid system.
1952 New Outlook for Blind Feb. 74/2 Sonography showed real improvement and progress over night writing.
1997 B. O'Connor World at his Fingertips 39 Captain Barbier was outraged when he learned that a thirteen-year-old boy thought his sonography needed changes.
2009 E. Cohen tr. Z. Weygand Blind in French Society xiv. 284 Barbier's sonography was definitively supplanted by the alphabet in raised dots of Louis Braille.
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a. Medicine. The technique or procedure of using echoes of ultrasonic pulses to delineate structures within the body; = ultrasonography n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > radiography or radiology > ultrasonography > [noun]
sonography1952
sonar1962
ultrasonography1980
sonology1984
1952 Brit. Jrnl. Physical Med. 15 6/2 Sonography of cerebral tumours [for diagnostic purposes] has been attempted..but it is as yet impossible to estimate the clinical value.
1975 A. E. James et al. in E. J. Potchen Current Concepts in Radiol. II. xi. 304 We have found a decrease in the number of placentograms performed, and an increased use of sonography in this circumstance.
1989 Family Planning Perspectives 21 280/1 The women underwent sonography at both 18 weeks and 34 weeks.
2012 Telegraph (Alton, Illinois) 3 Oct. a7 (advt.) Advanced live motion sonography allows us to pinpoint problem areas with extreme accuracy.
b. Oceanography and Limnology. The practice or technique of using side-scan sonar to obtain images of underwater terrain.
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1968 Sci. Jrnl. Apr. 28/2 The first international conference on acoustical holography, called sonography, was held in December. By using long acoustic wavelengths holograms can be made of large objects like sections of the ocean floor.
1980 Sedimentary Geol. 26 170 (caption) 12-kHz record over a similar group of large sand waves (top) and corresponding sonography (bottom) for the same section of trackline.
1996 A. A. Meyerhoff et al. Surge Tectonics ii. 13 Sonography was not used widely until a clearer and more easily interpreted image was perfected in the mid-1970s.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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