ultrasonography

Other forms of ultrasonography

plural

ultrasonographies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ultrasonography

What does ultrasonography mean?

ultrasonography means "using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs".

How many syllables are in ultrasonography?

ultrasonography has 6 syllables and divides as ul-tra-so-no-gra-phy under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ultrasonography?

Close synonyms include sonography, echography, ultrasound. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ultrasonography a common word?

ultrasonography is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.