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PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY FOR ULTRASOUND TECHNOLOGY

NOUNS VERBS ADJECTIVES ADVERBS NOTES

abscess

abscessed

absorption

absorb

absorbed

acoustic

acoustic

acoustic energy

acoustic enhancement

acoustic impedance

acoustic mismatch acoustic

shadowing

acoustic window

aliasing

anechoic

angle of

incidence

angular

1



anisotropic

aperture

artery

arterial

artifacts

ascites

attenuation

attenuated

avascular

axial resolution

2



beam axis

beam divergence

calcification

calcify

calcified

cineloop

comet tail artifact

complexity

complex

complication

complicate

complicated

cysts

cystic

3



diagnosis

diagnose

diagnostic

divergence

diverge

divergent

Doppler shift

frequency

Doppler studies

echo brightness

echogenicity

effusions

enhancement

enhance

enhanced

4



extended field of view

filters

filter

filtered

fix

fixed

frame rate

geometric

geometrical

hepatofugal

hepatopetal

heterogeneity

heterogeneous

5



homogeneity

homogeneous

hyperechoic

hypoechoic

ill-defined

immobility

immobilize

immobile

intensity

intensify

intense

interface

invasion into vessels

6



invasion into adjacent

structures

irregularity

irregular

isoechoic

lateral resolution

lithotripsy

loculations

lumen

luminal


lymphadenopathy

7


malignancy

malignant

metastasis

metastasize

mobility

mobilize

mobile

multiple

mural nodules

non-tender

normal incidence

oblique incidence

8



oval

oval

parenchyma

persistence

persist

persistent

Piezoelectric effect

pixel

poorly-defined

contours

pseudomass

9



rapid growth

reduced attenuation

reflection

reflect

reflective /

reflected

resistance

resist

reverberation

reverberate

reverberated

ringdown artifact

round

sample volume

10



scattering

scatter

scattered

septations

shadowing

shadow

smooth

solid

solitary

sonographer

sonologist

speckle

speckle

speckled

11



specular reflection

stenosis

tenderness

tender

texture

textured

thickening

thicken

thickened

transducer

transient

transmission

transmit

transmitted

tumour

12



ureteral dilatation

vascularity

vascular

velocity

well-defined

13


PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY FOR ULTRASOUND TECHNOLOGY

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abscess

absorption absorb absorbed

acoustic

anechoic

angle of incidence angular

aperture

artery arterial

14



artifacts

ascites

attenuation

avascular

axial resolution

beam axis

beam divergence

calcification

comet tail artifact

15



complexity complex

complication complicate complicated

cysts cystic

diagnosis diagnose diagnostic

divergence diverge divergent

Doppler shift

frequency

Doppler studies

echo brightness

16



echogenicity

effusions

enhancement

extended field of view

filters

fixed

frame rate

geometric

heterogeneous

17



homogeneity homogenous

hyperechoic

hypoechoic

ill-defined

immobile

intensity

interface

invasion into vessels

18


invasion into adjacent

structures


irregularity irregular

isoechoic

lateral resolution

loculations

lymphadenopathy

malignancy

metastasis

mobile

19


multiple

20



mural nodules

non-tender

normal incidence

oblique incidence

oval

parenchyma

persistent

Piezoelectric effect

21



pixel

poorly-defined

contours

pseudomass

rapid growth

reduced attenuation

reflection

resistance

22



reverberation

ringdown artifact

round

scattering

septations

shadowing

smooth

solid

solitary

sonographer

23



sonologist

speckle

specular reflection

tenderness tender

texture

thickening

transient

transmission

ureteral dilatation

24



vascularity vascular

velocity

well-defined

25

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