🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

声波图

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shēng bō tú

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sonogram/ˈsɒn.ə.ɡræm/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"医生通过声波图检查了胎儿的健康状况。"

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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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