echostructure

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English

Etymology

From echo +‎ structure.

Noun

echostructure (countable and uncountable, plural echostructures)

  1. (medicine) The amplitude and shape of an ultrasound echo.
    • 2012, Gabriel Kalifa, Pediatric Ultrasonography, page 304:
      The echostructure is mixed, cystic with more or less echogenous zones that are connective, fatty, or calcic structures.

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