sonogram
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sonogram
Explanation
In medicine, a sonogram uses sound waves to display an image of some internal part of a person's body. A pregnant woman might have a sonogram to get a picture of her fetus. A sonogram most commonly produces a two-dimensional black and white image — for example, of a fetus inside its mother's uterus. Doctors use sonograms to see organs, tendons, muscles, and joints as well. A sonogram works by bouncing high frequency sounds against tissue and displaying the reflected or echoed image. The word itself combines the Latin sonus, or "sound," and the word-forming suffix -gram.
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She even sent him what appeared to be a sonogram.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Afterwards, when the couple showed the sonogram to their loved ones, Reece said it felt like "friends and family knew more about my baby than I did".
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
When the mother of two showed up bleeding at Houston Methodist Sugar Land in June 2023, at 11 weeks pregnant, her sonogram suggested an “ongoing miscarriage” was “likely,” her doctor noted.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2025
Then he announced he had a surprise for the kiddo he had nicknamed “Big Ben,” thanks to a sonogram picture he saw where the baby was the same length as a wristwatch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
A sonogram with hawthorne, zooey printed across the bottom clung to the refrigerator door—held in place by a magnet from our favorite Chinese takeout joint.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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