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ultrasound

  • /ˈʌl.tɹə.saʊnd/ Canada, US, UK
  • /ˈɔl.t͡ʃɹə.sæɔnd/ Australia
  • [ˈɔʊ̯.t͡ʃɹə.sæɔ̯nd] Australia
  • [ˈɔɫ.t͡ʃɹə.sæɔ̯nd] Australia

noun ultrasounds

  1. countable, uncountable Sound with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing, which is approximately 20 kilohertz.

    Opposite: infrasound

  2. countable, informal, metonymically, uncountable Ultrasonography.
  3. countable, informal, metonymically, uncountable Medical ultrasonography.
  4. countable, uncountable Therapeutically applied ultrasonic energy. Ultrasound as a treatment for degenerative arthritis was in its infancy. It might eventually turn out to be as effective as the Salk vaccine, or as bogus as the science of phrenology.

verb ultrasounds · ultrasounding · ultrasounded

  1. ambitransitive To treat (someone or something) with ultrasound.

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Closest in meaning: ultrasonic, imaging, scanner, sonar, echo, resonance, sonogram, ultrasonography, output, guided, transrectal, ultrasonics, echography, echogram, sonography, acoustic imaging

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noun use of ultrasound

Españolultrasonido
Italianoecografia

noun sound

Españolultrasonido
한국어초음파 cho'eumpa
日本語超音波 chōonpa
中文超聲波 /超声波 chāoshēngbō, 超音波 chāoyīnbō
हिन्दीअल्ट्रासाउंड alṭrāsāuṇḍ
Portuguêsultrassom
Françaisultrason
DeutschUltraschall
Italianoultrasuono
Ελληνικάυπέρηχος ypérichos
Românăultrasunet
Русскийультразву́к ulʹtrazvúk
Tiếng Việtsiêu âm
العربيةالْمَوْجَات فَوْقَ الصَّوْتِيَّة al-mawjāt fawqa ṣ-ṣawtiyya
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@misc{ultrasound_2026,
  title = {ultrasound},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ultrasound},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}