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.

单词	CAT scan
释义	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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