Ultrasound Medical Glossary.
My name is Traycy. I will be studying in the ultrasound medical program next semester. This glossary is for students who are in the medical field but also for those who are curious and want to learn a few terms.
- acoustic beam
- phrase
- Technology that mixes and delivers the sound so it appears to come precisely where the action is happening on screen.
- Example: A-Scope technology instantaneously displays the echoes found in the transducer's acoustic beam.
- fr: faisceau acoustique
- body tissue
- noun
- A group of cells that have similar structure and that function together as a unit. There are 4 basic types of tissue: connective tissue, epithelial tissue, muscle tissue, and nervous tissue.
- Example: The heart and the brain doesn't have the same type of body tissue.
- fr: tissu corporel
- couplant gel
- noun
- A medium, typically a viscous, nontoxic liquid or gel, that transmits ultrasonic energy from its source to the object to be stimulated.
- Example: Put a small amount of shear wave coupling gel on the transducers.
- fr: gel couplant
- depth
- noun
- The distance from the top or surface to the bottom of something.
- Example: The depth of the water is usually 1-6 m deep.
- fr: profondeur
- echo
- noun
- A sound or series of sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener.
- Example: We can hear an echo if I scream that way.
- fr: écho
- examination
- noun
- A detailed inspection or investigation.
- Example: An examination of marketing behavior.
- fr: examen
- frenquency
- noun
- A rate at which a vibration occurs that constitutes a wave, either in a material (as in sound waves), or in an electromagnetic field (as in radio waves and light), usually measured per second.
- Example: Different thicknesses of glass will absorb different frequencies of sound.
- fr: fréquence
- hertz
- noun
- A unit of frequency in the International System of Units is defined as one cycle per second.
- Example: .
- injury
- noun
- An act that damages or hurts.
- Example: The patient had a major injury around the abdominal area.
- fr: blessure
- internal organ
- noun
- A main organ that is situated inside the body.
- Example: I was referred to an internal organ specialist.
- fr: organe interne
- medical imaging
- noun
- A technique and process of imaging the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention
- Example: She has a diploma from the CÉGEP in Rimouski and works as a medical imaging technologist at a Hospital in Caraquet.
- fr: imagerie médicale
- patient
- noun
- A person receiving or registered to receive medical treatment.
- Example: The patient described his symptoms to the doctor.
- fr: patient(e)
- pregnancy ultrasound
- noun
- An imaging test that uses sound waves to create a picture of how a baby is developing in the womb.
- Example: She needed to get a pregnancy ultrasound to see how is the baby doing.
- fr: échographie de grossesse
- probe
- noun
- A slender surgical instrument for exploring the depth or direction of a wound, sinus, or the like.
- Example: The ultrasound probe can be pushed firmly against the patient's skin.
- fr: sonde
- pulser
- noun
- The pulser circuit generates electrical impulses that are applied to a transducer causing the transducer to emit an ultrasound pulse.
- fr: pouls
- scan
- noun
- A type of test that makes detailed pictures of areas inside the body.
- Example: The patient underwent a brain scan.
- fr: .
- sonogram
- noun
- A computer picture of areas inside the body created by high-energy sound waves.
- Example: A sonogram is the result of a ultrasound.
- sonographer
- noun
- A specialist in the use of ultrasound.
- Example: Miss Anne will be the sonographer that will be taking care of me today.
- fr: échographiste
- sound wave
- noun
- A wave of compression and rarefaction, by which sound is propagated in an elastic medium such as air.
- Example: A sound wave caused the diaphragm to move, forcing a needle to move up and down in the water.
- fr: onde sonore
- transducer
- noun
- A device that produces sound waves that bounce off body tissues and make echoes.
- Example: They are using the transducer on the mother's belly.
- fr: transducteur
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