English noun: imaging |
1. | imaging (cognition) the ability to form mental images of things or events |
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| Samples | He could still hear her in his imagination.
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| Synonyms | imagery, imagination, mental imagery |
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| Broader (hypernym) | representational process |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | chimaera, chimera, dream, dreaming, envisioning, evocation, make-believe, mind's eye, picturing, pretence, pretense, vision |
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2. | imaging (act) (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body |
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| Synonyms | tomography |
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| Broader (hypernym) | pictorial representation, picturing |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | echography, magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, PET, positron emission tomography, radiology, radioscopy, sonography, ultrasonography, ultrasound, X-radiation, X-raying |
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| Domain category | medical specialty, medicine |
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