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单词 CAT scan
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Definition of CAT scan in English:

CAT scan

noun
Medicine
  • An X-ray image made using a form of tomography in which a computer controls the motion of the X-ray source and detectors, processes the data, and produces the image.

    Also called CT scan
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Specialized X-rays called CAT scans of the top of a fossil thigh bone show clear evidence that the creature walked upright, like pre-humans, and not like apes, the researchers said.
    • We'll need to run a CAT scan to see exactly what is on your brain, and also some other quick painless tests.
    • A recent CAT scan demonstrated that Dice's surgically repaired left knee is 90 percent healed.
    • There have been significant new diagnostic tools, such as X-ray imagery, CAT scans, mammography, and sonograms, to mention only a few.
    • I was strapped to a gurney by the paramedics and rushed to emergency for x-rays and a CAT scan.

Derivatives

  • CAT scanner

  • noun
    Medicine
    • With a high-resolution CAT scanner, he makes a computer model - accurate down to 0.015 inch - of a section of trabecular bone.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She said she hoped that Minister Harney, when she visits the hospital on Friday, would announce the hospital would have a full-time A and E consultant as well as its own CAT scanner.
      • Medical technologies that help prolong life, such as the imaging processing used in CAT scanners and MRI machines, trace their origins to technology engineered for the use in space.
      • The autopsy will clearly show what the CAT scanner showed, and what we predicted.
      • They've been scanning me with everything you can imagine - electron beam scanners and CAT scanners and MRIs - and assembling all this information so I can see my own nervous system, my own cardiovascular system, in three dimensions.

Origin

1970s: CAT is an abbreviation of computerized axial tomography.

 
 

Definition of CAT scan in US English:

CAT scan

nounˈkætskæn
Medicine
  • An X-ray image made using a form of tomography in which a computer controls the motion of the X-ray source and detectors, processes the data, and produces the image.

    Also called CT scan
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There have been significant new diagnostic tools, such as X-ray imagery, CAT scans, mammography, and sonograms, to mention only a few.
    • I was strapped to a gurney by the paramedics and rushed to emergency for x-rays and a CAT scan.
    • Specialized X-rays called CAT scans of the top of a fossil thigh bone show clear evidence that the creature walked upright, like pre-humans, and not like apes, the researchers said.
    • A recent CAT scan demonstrated that Dice's surgically repaired left knee is 90 percent healed.
    • We'll need to run a CAT scan to see exactly what is on your brain, and also some other quick painless tests.

Origin

1970s: CAT is an abbreviation of computerized axial tomography.

 
 
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