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PET SCANNER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tomograph that produces cross-sectional X-rays of metabolic processes in the body
Synonyms:
PET scanner; positron emission tomography scanner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("PET scanner" is a kind of...):
tomograph (X-ray machine in which a computer builds a detailed image of a particular plane through an object from multiple X-ray measurements)
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