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echostructure

echostructure noun: the amplitude and shape of an ultrasound echo.

Noun

echostructure (countable and uncountable, plural echostructures)

  1. The amplitude and shape of an ultrasound echo.
    • 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

Forms of echostructure

pluralechostructures

Origin of echostructure

From echo + structure.

Words formed from echostructure

Questions about echostructure

What does echostructure mean?
Echostructure means the amplitude and shape of an ultrasound echo.
What part of speech is echostructure?
Echostructure is a noun.
What is the plural of echostructure?
The plural of echostructure is echostructures.

Words near echostructure in the dictionary

  1. echosounder
  2. echosounders
  3. echosounding
  4. echosoundings
  5. echostructural
  6. echostructure
  7. echostructures
  8. echotextural
  9. echotexture
  10. echotextures
  11. echothanatologia

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