echogenous

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adjective

echogenic.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveechogenous (comparative more echogenous, superlative most echogenous)

comparative more echogenous · superlative most echogenous

  1. medicineechogenic.

    The echostructure is mixed, cystic with more or less echogenous zones that are connective, fatty, or calcic structures.

    2012, Gabriel Kalifa, Pediatric Ultrasonography, page 304
    2 more examples

    These advantages are more prominent in the obese patient in whom uniformly echogenous ovaries were often described with little added value to the diagnosis of PCOS.

    2007, Gautam Allahbadia, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, page 59

    The frontal scan on the left side of the image shows the EMJ as a low echogenous seam surrounding the middle and lower part of the endometrium.

    2017, Ibrahim Alkatout, Liselotte Mettler, Hysterectomy: A Comprehensive Surgical Approach, page 92

Origin

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Chicago

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