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overimaging

overimaging noun: excessive imaging: that which is beyond what is properly indicated in the situation.

Noun

overimaging (uncountable)

  1. 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.
    • 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 of overimaging

From over- + imaging.

Questions about overimaging

What does overimaging mean?
Overimaging means excessive imaging: that which is beyond what is properly indicated in the situation.
What part of speech is overimaging?
Overimaging is a noun.

Words near overimaging in the dictionary

  1. overimaginative
  2. overimaginativeness
  3. overimagine
  4. overimagined
  5. overimagines
  6. overimaging
  7. overimagining
  8. overimitate
  9. overimitated
  10. overimitates
  11. overimitating

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