CT

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ct"

Translingual

Symbol

CT

(international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the Canton and Enderbury Islands from 1974 to 1984.
Synonym: CTE (alpha-3)

Usage notes

The code was deprecated in favour of KI following the transfer of control to Kiribati in 1979 and the relinquishment of claims over the islands by the United States in 1983.

English

Proper noun

CT

Abbreviation of Connecticut: a state of the United States.
Initialism of Central Time.
(Egyptology) Initialism of Coffin Texts.

Noun

CT (countable and uncountable, plural CTs)

(especially medicine) Initialism of computed tomography.
Hypernyms: tomography < imaging
1. (countable, especially medicine) A CT scan.
  Hypernyms: tomogram < scan, image
(medicine) Initialism of cold turkey.
(slang) Initialism of cocktease.
(slang) Initialism of camel toe.
(military) Abbreviation of combat team.
(medicine) Initialism of Chlamydia trachomatis; chlamydia.
- 2012, California Department of Public Health Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control Branch, California STD Controllers Association, “Executive Summary”, in Guidelines for the Treatment of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Cases and Exposed Sexual Partners by Health Department Staff in Non-Clinical Settings‎, page 3:
  An appointment with a clinician at which the patient or partner(s) can receive testing and care for all STDs and HIV is the preferred management strategy for CT and GC treatment.

Synonyms

(computed tomography): computed tomography, computed axial tomography, CAT
(CT scan): CT scan, CAT scan, computed tomography scan, computed axial tomography scan

Derived terms

(Central Time): CDT, CST
(computed tomography): angio-CT, CT angiography, CT scan, HRCT, MSCT

Related terms

military

Verb

CT (third-person singular simple present CTs, present participle CTing, simple past and past participle CTed)

(transitive, medicine, informal) To perform a CT scan on.
- 2013, Marc Dauphin, Combat Doctor: Life and Death Stories from Kandahar's Military Hospital, Toronto: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 197:
  There's a certain something that emanates from a confused patient that this fellow doesn't have. I sure wish I had more 'terps. Well, we're not going to CT him right away. There are two other fellows before him. “Get a plain film of his head, Tim. ”