TOMOGRAPH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

X-ray machine in which a computer builds a detailed image of a particular plane through an object from multiple X-ray measurements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tomograph" is a kind of...):

X-ray machine (an apparatus that provides a source of X rays)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tomograph"):

CAT scanner; computerized axial tomography scanner (a tomograph that constructs a 3-D model of an object by combining parallel planes)

PET scanner; positron emission tomography scanner (a tomograph that produces cross-sectional X-rays of metabolic processes in the body)