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THERMOGRAPHY

subject field: medicine: diagnostic procedure
check date: 29/08/2001
checker: Pamela
origination date: 07/12/2000
originator: CATI

Conceptual Structures
ISANONINVASIVE-DIAGNOSTIC-TEST
ANCESTORSALL
DIAGNOSTIC-PROCEDURE
EVENT
HEALTH-SERVE
MEDICAL-SERVE
NONINVASIVE-DIAGNOSTIC-TEST
PROFESSIONAL-SERVICE-EVENT
SERVICE-EVENT
SOCIAL-EVENT
WORK-ACTIVITY
RELATIONSDIAGNOSTIC-TEST-FOR : MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-FEMALE-BREAST

English
thermographyterm type: main entry term
part of speech: noun
definition: examination of body tissue using an infrared camera to measure and display heat patterns. This diagnostic procedure (which does not use radiation) is not a very accurate test, missing as many as 30 % of cancers. It can be used in the detection of breast cancer, but mammography is the preferred method. (en)
check date: 11/08/2001
checker: Pamela
reliability code: 10
number: singular
contact termographydefinition: see contact thermography. (en)
term type: synonym
part of speech: noun
number: singular
reliability code: 10
graphic stress telethermometrydefinition: see thermography. (en)
term type: synonym
part of speech: noun
number: singular
reliability code: 10

Spanish
termografíaterm type: main entry term
part of speech: noun
gender: feminine
number: singular
definition: observación de la temperatura corporal aumentada en las zonas afectas de un proceso patógeno. A partir de la propia radiación térmica, correspondiente a la parte infrarroja del espectro, se obtiene una imagen del reparto de la temperatura en el cuerpo humano. Esta técnica se emplea desde 1957 para el diagnóstico precoz de las neoplasias mamarias pero, al no ser una prueba muy fiable, es mucho más frecuente la mamografía. (es)
reliability code: 10