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CAT scan

[kat skan] / ˈkæt ˌskæn /


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The system provides a picture of the mountain's anatomy as revealing as any cat scan.

From Time Magazine Archive

This unwholesome dependence-resentment pattern looks like a cat scan of the passive-aggressive brain.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, a cat scan done immediately following this event showed no evidence that a stroke had occurred.

From Time Magazine Archive

Doctors must first determine, by performing a cat scan, that the stroke is indeed being caused by a clot and not by a leaky artery.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cat scan, I later discovered, was another means of taking an X-ray, and with this knowledge, felt sure that I would live to tell about it.

From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann



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