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Where does “hypoechogenicity” come from?

hypoechogenicity (English) comes from English echogenicity, from English echogenic, from English -genic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.

hypoechogenicity (English): A decreased response during the ultrasound...

Definitions

  1. A decreased response during the ultrasound...

Ancestry of “hypoechogenicity”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishechogenicityThe ability to create an echo that can be...
2EnglishechogenicDescribing any inner part of the body that...
3English-genicproducing or generating something; produced or...
4English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
5EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
6Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
7Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
8Spanishimagenimage
9Italianimmagineimage; imago
10Latinimāginem—
11Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
12Latinīn-—
13Latinîn—
14Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
15Proto-Italicenin
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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