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Definition: Sonography |
SonographyNoun1. Using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SonographySynonyms: ultrasonography (n), ultrasound (n). (additional references) |
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Health | Doi, H, et al. The Use of Two-dimensional Doppler Sonography (Color Doppler) in the Diagnosis of Hydranencephaly. (references) | |
Business | These statistics also probably reflect, however, the abuse of sonography and the termination of pregnancies based on the sex of the fetus. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sonography" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sonography" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "sonography"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | endovaginal ultralydundersøgelse (endovaginal ultrasonography, endovaginal ultrasound, transvaginal sonography, transvaginal ultrasonography, transvaginal ultrasound). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | endovaginale echografie (endovaginal ultrasonography, endovaginal ultrasound, transvaginal sonography, transvaginal ultrasonography, transvaginal ultrasound). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | kaikukuvaus emättimen kautta (endovaginal ultrasonography, endovaginal ultrasound, transvaginal sonography, transvaginal ultrasonography, transvaginal ultrasound), endovaginaalinen kaikukuvaus (endovaginal ultrasonography, endovaginal ultrasound, transvaginal sonography, transvaginal ultrasonography, transvaginal ultrasound). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | échographie endovaginale (transvaginal sonography). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | endovaginale Sonographie (endovaginal ultrasonography, endovaginal ultrasound, transvaginal sonography, transvaginal ultrasonography, transvaginal ultrasound). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | ενδοκολπική υπερηχογραφία (endovaginal ultrasonography, endovaginal ultrasound, transvaginal sonography, transvaginal ultrasonography, transvaginal ultrasound). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | ecografia transvaginale (endovaginal ultrasonography, endovaginal ultrasound, transvaginal sonography, transvaginal ultrasonography, transvaginal ultrasound). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | onographysay ecografía ginecológica (endovaginal ultrasonography, endovaginal ultrasound, transvaginal sonography, transvaginal ultrasonography, transvaginal ultrasound). (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words ending with "sonography": ultrasonography. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-n-o-o-p-r-s-y" | |
-2 letters: gryphons, harpoons. | |
-3 letters: gonophs, gryphon, harpoon, hoorays, orphans, soprano. | |
-4 letters: aprons, argons, argosy, gonoph, graphs, groans, gyrons, hogans, honors, hooray, orangs, orangy, organs, orphan, pargos, parson, payors, pharos, phonos, pornos, prangs, prongs, pyrans, rayons, sarong, sharny, sharpy, shoran, snoopy, sorgho, spongy, spoony, sprang, syphon, yahoos, yapons. | |
-5 letters: agons, agony, angry, apron, argon, arson, gnars. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-n-o-o-p-r-s-y" | |
+2 letters: oropharynges. | |
+3 letters: pharmacognosy. | |
+4 letters: gynandromorphs. | |
+5 letters: phosphorylating, semipornography, ultrasonography. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01101110 01101111 01100111 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o n o g r a p h y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 006E 006F 0067 0072 0061 0070 0068 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53818081738467827491 |
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