n, pl  -phies  :  a method of producing a three-dimensional image of the internal structures of a solid object (as the human body) by the observation and recording of the differences in the effects on the passage of waves of energy impinging on those structures - called also stratigraphy  - see COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY  to*mo*graph*ic adj 
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  de·mog·ra·phy  to·mo·graph 
 
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