overimaging

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noun

Excessive imaging: that which is beyond what is properly indicated in the situation.

“Any efforts to reduce overimaging must find ways of addressing the underlying incentives behind defensive medicine.”

OriginEnglish imaging ← Middle English over- ← Old English ofer- →
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Meanings

nounoverimaging (uncountable)
  1. uncountablemedicineExcessive imaging: that which is beyond what is properly indicated in the situation.

    Any efforts to reduce overimaging must find ways of addressing the underlying incentives behind defensive medicine.

    1 more example

    It is not always easy to say objectively whether CT or MRI constitutes overimaging in any specific case; sometimes the decision on whether to obtain such imaging is a matter of managing risk levels, as the risk of missing something diagnostically is not worth taking in a certain situation.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Englishimaging
  8. Englishoverimaging

From over- + imaging.

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APA

overimaging. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overimaging

MLA

“overimaging.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overimaging. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overimaging,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overimaging.

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