thermography
[ther-mog-ruh-fee]
- a technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat.
- Medicine/Medical. a technique for measuring regional skin temperatures, used especially as a screening method for detection of breast cancer.
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Origin of thermography
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thermography
- any writing, printing, or recording process involving the use of heat
- a printing process which produces raised characters by heating special powder or ink placed on the paper
- med the measurement and recording of heat produced by a part of the body: used in the diagnosis of tumours, esp of the breast (mammothermography), which have an increased blood supply and therefore generate more heat than normal tissueSee also thermogram
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thermography
(thər-mŏg′rə-fē)- A diagnostic technique in which an infrared camera is used to measure temperature variations on the surface of the body, producing images that reveal sites of abnormal tissue growth.
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