单词 | thermography |
释义 | thermography[ ther-mog-ruh-fee ] / θərˈmɒg rə fi / nouna technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat. Medicine/Medical. a technique for measuring regional skin temperatures, used especially as a screening method for detection of breast cancer. Origin of thermographyFirst recorded in 1830–40; thermo- + -graphy OTHER WORDS FROM thermographyther·mog·ra·pher, nounther·mo·graph·ic [thur-muh-graf-ik], /ˌθɜr məˈgræf ɪk/, adjectivether·mo·graph·i·cal·ly, adverbWords nearby thermographythermogenesis, thermogenic, thermogeography, thermogram, thermograph, thermography, thermoinhibitory, thermojunction, thermolabile, thermoluminescence, thermoluminescence dating Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for thermographythermography / (θɜːˈmɒɡrəfɪ) / nounany writing, printing, or recording process involving the use of heat a printing process which produces raised characters by heating special powder or ink placed on the paper med the measurement and recording of heat produced by a part of the body: used in the diagnosis of tumours, esp of the breast (mammothermography), which have an increased blood supply and therefore generate more heat than normal tissueSee also thermogram Derived forms of thermographythermographer, nounthermographic (ˌθɜːməʊˈɡræfɪk), adjectiveCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Medical definitions for thermographythermography [ thər-mŏg′rə-fē ] n.A diagnostic technique in which an infrared camera is used to measure temperature variations on the surface of the body, producing images that reveal sites of abnormal tissue growth. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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