Computerized Tomography

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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

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

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unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

6 surface forms

synonym: computed axial tomographycomputed tomographycomputerized axial tomography
plural: Computerized Tomographies
possessive: Computerized Tomography's
pluralpossessive: Computerized Tomographies'

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