Ultrasound Definition

ŭltrə-sound
noun
Ultrasonic sound.
American Heritage Medicine
Ultrasonic waves, used in medical and dental diagnosis and therapy, in cleaning and detecting flaws in metal, etc.
Webster's New World
The use of ultrasonic waves in ultrasonography to form images of interior bodily organs, as the uterus or heart.
Webster's New World
An image produced by ultrasound.
American Heritage Medicine

(physics) Sound with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing; approximately 20 kilohertz.

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Noun

Singular:
ultrasound
Plural:
ultrasounds

Ultrasound Sentence Examples

  • They should be doing an ultrasound in a couple of weeks.

  • She thought when she asked him if he wanted to go with her for the twelve week ultrasound that he would say no, but he didn't.

  • Long before the ultrasound, she was certain that her problem was pregnancy.

  • Finally the day arrived and she went in for the ultrasound.

  • Between 10 and 14 weeks of pregnancy, physicians may use an ultrasound to look for a thickness at the nuchal translucency, a pocket of fluid in back of the embryo's neck, which may indicate a cardiac defect in 55 percent of cases.

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