imaging

[im-uh-jing]

noun

1. Psychology.,  a technique in which one uses mental images to control bodily processes and thus ease pain or to succeed in some endeavor that one has visualized in advance.

2. Medicine/Medical.,  the use of computerized axial tomography, sonography, or other specialized techniques and instruments to obtain pictures of the interior of the body, especially those including soft tissues.

imaging

1. The creation of visual representations of objects, such as a body parts or celestial bodies, for the purpose of medical diagnosis or data collection, using any of a variety of usually computerized techniques. Within the field of medicine, important imaging technologies include compuertized axial tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasonography.

Word History and Origins

Origin of imaging¹

First recorded in 1660–70, for the earlier sense “imagination”; image + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Thermal imaging, according to the psychologists behind the study could be a "game changer" in stress research.

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Their Health Education and Learning High School, which opened at an existing Houston school last year, lets students choose career paths such as medical imaging, physical therapy and pharmacy technician roles.

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Troop rotations are now only carried out on foot, in ten-kilometre segments, while soldiers wear special cover to evade the drones' thermal imaging cameras.

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Working with the Taylor lab at the University of Pittsburgh, Betley’s team used calcium imaging to visualize neuron activity in real time in animal models of both short-term and long-term pain.

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Villanueva downplayed the effectiveness of the thermal imaging cameras, noting that some chaparral in the city extends 15 to 25 feet underground, while the depth of the department’s cameras is only a foot.

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