Medical Dictionary

2scan

noun

Medical Definition of SCAN

1
:  the act or process of scanning
2
a :  a depiction (as a photograph) of the distribution of a radioactive material in something (as a bodily organ) b :  an image of a bodily part produced (as by computer) by combining ultrasonographic or radiographic data obtained from several angles or sections

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