sonography
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Using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram);
Commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs (synset 100903487)is a type of:- prenatal diagnosis - any of the diagnostic procedures used to determine whether a fetus has a genetic abnormality
- imaging, tomography - (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body
subtypes:- a-scan ultrasonography - the use of ultrasonography to measure the length of the eyeball
- b-scan ultrasonography - the use of ultrasonography to view structure in the back of the eye
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