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Word: Tomograph
Speech Type: Noun
1930s; earliest use found in British Journal of Radiology. From ancient Greek τόμος slice, section + -graph
A device or machine used for making tomographic images of the internal structure of something, typically operating by means of one or more sensors which can detect and record the passage of electromagnetic waves, electrons, etc., through the object from multiple angles.
A tomographic image of the internal structure of something; a tomogram. Now somewhat rare.
