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| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | The body scan of the area below the waist using sound waves to make up a picture of the organs inside the body. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A doctor may also order an abdominal ultrasound to look for gallstones and a CAT (computerized axial tomography) scan to look for inflammation or destruction of the pancreas. (references) | |
For example, in a representative study, 5,479 women, 96 percent of whom were 45 years of age or older, were screened using abdominal ultrasound, and there were 338 positive screens. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
abdominal ultrasound | 43 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ABDOMINAL ULTRASOUND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | abdominal ultralydundersøgelse (abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal US). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | echografie van de buik (abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal US). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | vatsaontelon elinten ultrasonografia (abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal US), vatsaontelon elinten kaikukuvaus (abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal US). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | ultrasonographie (abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal US), échographie des organes abdominaux (abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal US). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Ultraschallechoverfahren (abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal US), Ultraschalldiagnostik (abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal US), Sonographie (abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal US). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | υπερηχογραφία κοιλιακών οργάνων (abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal US), υπερηχογραφία (abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal US). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | ecografia degli organi addominali (abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal US), ecografia addominale (abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal US). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | abdominalay asoundultray ecografía abdominal (abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal US). (various references) | ||||||||||
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