Medical Dictionary
tomography
noun to·mog·ra·phy \tō-ˈmäg-rə-fē\
plural to·mog·ra·phies
Medical Definition of TOMOGRAPHY
: a method of producing a three-dimensional image of the internal structures of a solid object (as the human body) by the observation and recording of the differences in the effects on the passage of waves of energy impinging on those structures—called also stratigraphy; see computed tomography, positron-emission tomography
—to·mo·graph·ic \ˌtō-mə-ˈgraf-ik\ adjective
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