COMPUTERIZED AXIAL TOMOGRAPHY as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis
   Synonym(s)
   • CAT (what does CAT mean?)
   • computed axial tomography (what does computed axial tomography mean?)
   • computed tomography (what does computed tomography mean?)
   • computerized tomography (what does computerized tomography mean?)
   • CT (what does CT mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) computerized axial tomography is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • X-raying (what does X-raying mean?)
   • X-radiation (what does X-radiation mean?)