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sinography

sinography noun: diagnostic imaging of the sinus.

Noun (1)

sinography (uncountable)

  1. Diagnostic imaging of the sinus.

Noun (2)

sinography (uncountable)

  1. Chinese writing.
    • Since sinography (Chinese writing) is language-specific and, in turn, individual sinographs are morpheme-specific, scribes in early Japan faced tremendous problems in adapting sinography to Japanese.2003, Marc Hideo Miyake, Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction, →ISBN

Origin of sinography

From sino- + -graphy.

By surface analysis, sino- (“China, Chinese”) + -graphy (“something written”).

Words formed from sinography

Questions about sinography

What does sinography mean?
Sinography means diagnostic imaging of the sinus.
What part of speech is sinography?
Sinography is a noun.

Words near sinography in the dictionary

  1. sinogram
  2. sinograms
  3. sinograph
  4. sinographic
  5. sinographs
  6. sinography
  7. sinoite
  8. sinolepid
  9. sinolepids
  10. sinological
  11. sinologically

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