imaging

[im-uh-jing]

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noun

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.
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.

imaging

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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Word History and Origins

Origin of imaging¹

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

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When he heard about a supposed job with the French Foreign Legion offering $3,000 a month, he signed up, imaging a future guarding dignitaries or assisting in peacekeeping missions.

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Because HLS MS 172 is in places badly faded, the academics worked not from the original but from pictures obtained using ultraviolet light and spectral imaging.

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Welch lays the blame on overdetection — screening programs, imaging scans, and genetic tests that detect abnormalities that would never progress to be problems — and O’Sullivan agrees.

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Bjorn, who works at a hospital as a magnetic resonance imaging technologist, agreed.

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You may also need imaging, bloodwork or other procedures on a regular basis.

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imagineering imagism

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