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hypoenhanced

hypoenhanced is the simple past and past participle of hypoenhance.

Meaning of hypoenhance

Verb

hypoenhance (third-person singular simple present hypoenhances, present participle hypoenhancing, simple past and past participle hypoenhanced)

  1. (transitive) To produce hypoenhancement.
    • With the exception of subtle perilesional enhancement, the metastases hypoenhance relative to liver in all phases.2015, Angela D. Levy, Koenraad J. Mortele, Benjamin M. Yeh, Gastrointestinal Imaging, page 424

Adjective

hypoenhanced (not comparable)

  1. Less than normally enhanced (typically in an ultrasound image)

Origin of hypoenhanced

From hypo- + enhanced.

Questions about hypoenhanced

What does hypoenhanced mean?
Hypoenhanced means less than normally enhanced (typically in an ultrasound image).
What is hypoenhanced the simple past and past participle of?
Hypoenhanced is the simple past and past participle of hypoenhance.
What part of speech is hypoenhanced?
Hypoenhanced is an adjective.

Words near hypoenhanced in the dictionary

  1. hypoemotionality
  2. hypoendemic
  3. hypoendemicity
  4. hypoenergetic
  5. hypoenhance
  6. hypoenhanced
  7. hypoenhancement
  8. hypoenhances
  9. hypoenhancing
  10. hypoeosinophilia
  11. hypoequilibrium

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hypoenhanced (page history and authors); hypoenhance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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