imaging

[ im-uh-jing ]
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noun
  1. Psychology. a technique in which one uses mental images to control bodily processes and thus ease pain or to succeed in some endeavor that one has visualized in advance.

  2. Medicine/Medical. the use of computerized axial tomography, sonography, or other specialized techniques and instruments to obtain pictures of the interior of the body, especially those including soft tissues.

Origin of imaging

1
First recorded in 1660–70, for the earlier sense “imagination”; image + -ing1

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Scientific definitions for imaging

imaging

[ ĭmĭ-jĭng ]


  1. The creation of visual representations of objects, such as a body parts or celestial bodies, for the purpose of medical diagnosis or data collection, using any of a variety of usually computerized techniques. Within the field of medicine, important imaging technologies include compuertized axial tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasonography.

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