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Definition of Imaging
1. Noun. The ability to form mental images of things or events. "He could still hear her in his imagination"
Exact synonyms: Imagery, Imagination, Mental Imagery
Generic synonyms: Representational Process
Specialized synonyms: Mind's Eye, Vision, Envisioning, Picturing, Dream, Dreaming, Chimaera, Chimera, Evocation, Make-believe, Pretence, Pretense
Derivative terms: Image, Imagine, Image
Generic synonyms: Representational Process
Specialized synonyms: Mind's Eye, Vision, Envisioning, Picturing, Dream, Dreaming, Chimaera, Chimera, Evocation, Make-believe, Pretence, Pretense
Derivative terms: Image, Imagine, Image
2. Noun. (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body.
Exact synonyms: Tomography
Generic synonyms: Pictorial Representation, Picturing
Specialized synonyms: X-radiation, X-raying, Echography, Sonography, Ultrasonography, Ultrasound, Pet, Positron Emission Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Mri, Radiology, Radioscopy
Category relationships: Medical Specialty, Medicine
Generic synonyms: Pictorial Representation, Picturing
Specialized synonyms: X-radiation, X-raying, Echography, Sonography, Ultrasonography, Ultrasound, Pet, Positron Emission Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Mri, Radiology, Radioscopy
Category relationships: Medical Specialty, Medicine
Definition of Imaging
1. the process of producing an image [n -S]
Medical Definition of Imaging
1. Radiological production of a clinical image using X-rays, ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance, radionuclide scanning, thermography, etc.; especially, cross-sectional imaging, such as ultrasonography, CT, or MRI. Origin: see image (05 Mar 2000)
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