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Where does “ultrasonographic” come from?

Ultrasonographic derives from English ultrasonography, combining English sonography from Latin sonus meaning sound with English -graphy from Proto-Indo-European gerebh- meaning to scratch or carve, thus originally denoting the process of recording or writing sound.

ultrasonographic (English): Of, pertaining to, or produced by ultrasonography

Definitions

  1. Of, pertaining to, or produced by ultrasonography

Ancestry of “ultrasonographic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
2EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
3Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
4Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
5Spanishimagenimage
6Italianimmagineimage; imago
7Latinimāginem—
8Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
9Latinīn-—
10Latinîn—
11Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
12Proto-Italicenin
13Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “ultrasonographic”

  • ultrasonographically
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