🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

ultrassom

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ul-tra-sõ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sonogram/ˈsɒn.ə.ɡræm/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ela fez um ultrassom para acompanhar o desenvolvimento do bebê."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An image produced by ultrasonography, especially of an unborn fetus.

    "The expecting parents eagerly looked at the first sonogram of their baby."
  2. 2

    A visual representation of a sound in terms of its intensity, frequency, and time.

    "The researcher analyzed the sonogram of the whale song to study communication patterns."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'sonus' (meaning sound) combined with the Greek suffix 'gramma' (meaning something written or drawn). Coined in the mid-20th century, the term originally referred to a visual record made by a sound spectrograph before evolving in medical terminology to designate an ultrasound image.

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