ultrasound

English

Etymology

ultra- +‎ sound

Noun

ultrasound (countable and uncountable, plural ultrasounds)

(physics) Sound with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing, which is approximately 20 kilohertz.
(medicine) The use of ultrasonic waves for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
  Ultrasound as a treatment for degenerative arthritis was in its infancy. It might eventually turn out to be as effective as the Salk vaccine, or as bogus as the science of phrenology.

Antonyms

(physics): infrasound

Related terms

ultrasonic, ultrasonics

Translations

sound

Afrikaans: ultraklank
Albanian: ultratingull (sq) m
Arabic: الْمَوْجَات فَوْقَ الصَّوْتِيَّة‎ f pl (al-mawjāt fawqa ṣ-ṣawtiyya)
Armenian: ուլտրաձայն (hy) (ultrajayn)
Asturian: ultrasoníu m
Azerbaijani: ultrasəs
Bashkir: ультразвук (ul’trazvuk)
Basque: ultrasoinu
Belarusian: ультрагу́к m (ulʹtrahúk)
Bengali: শ্রবণাতীত শব্দ (śrôbôṇatīt śôbdô)
Bulgarian: ултразву́к m (ultrazvúk)
Burmese: နှုန်းလွန်အသံလှိုင်း (hnun:lwan-a.samhluing:)
Catalan: ultrasò m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 超聲波 (ciu¹ sing¹ bo¹), 超音波 (ciu¹ jam¹ bo¹)
Mandarin: 超聲波／超声波 (zh) (chāoshēngbō), 超音波 (zh) (chāoyīnbō)
Min Nan: 超音波 (zh-min-nan) (chhiau-im-pho)
Cornish: ughson m
Czech: ultrazvuk (cs) m
Danish: ultralyd (da) c
Dhivehi: އަލްޓްރާ ސައުންޑް‎ (alṭrā saun̊ḍ)
Dutch: ultrageluid n
Esperanto: ultrasono
Estonian: ultraheli
Finnish: ultraääni (fi)
French: ultrason (fr) m
Galician: ultrasón m
Georgian: ულტრაბგერა (ulṭrabgera)
German: Ultraschall (de) m
Greek: υπέρηχος (el) m (ypérichos)
Hebrew: אולטרה סאונד‎
Hindi: अल्ट्रासाउंड (alṭrāsāuṇḍ)
Hungarian: ultrahang (hu)
Interlingua: ultrasono
Italian: ultrasuono (it) m
Japanese: 超音波 (ja) (ちょうおんぱ, chōonpa)
Kannada: ಅಲ್ಟ್ರಾಸೌಂಡ್ (alṭrāsauṇḍ)
Kazakh: ультрадыбыс (ultradybys)
Khmer: អ៊ុលត្រាសោន (ʼultraasaon)
Korean: 초음파(超音波) (ko) (cho'eumpa)
Kyrgyz: ультразвук (ulʹtrazvuk), ультра үн (ulʹtra ün)
Latvian: ultraskaņa f
Lithuanian: ultragarsas m
Luxembourgish: Ultraschall m
Macedonian: ултразвук m (ultrazvuk)
Malay: ultrabunyi
Mongolian:
хэт авиа (xet avia) ᠬᠡᠲᠦ
ᠠᠪᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ (ketü abiy'a)
хэт долгион (xet dolgion) ᠬᠡᠲᠦ
ᠳᠣᠯᠭᠢᠶᠠᠨ (ketü dolɣiyan) (Inner Mongolia)
Northern Sami: ultrajietna
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ultralyd (no) n
Nynorsk: ultraljod n
Persian: فراصوت‎ (fa) (farâ-sowt)
Polish: ultradźwięk (pl) m
Portuguese: ultrassom (pt) m
Romanian: ultrasunet (ro) m
Russian: ультразву́к (ru) m (ulʹtrazvúk)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: у̏лтразвӯк m
Roman: ȕltrazvūk (sh) m
Slovak: ultrazvuk m
Slovene: ultrazvok m
Spanish: ultrasonido (es) m
Swedish: ultraljud (sv) n
Tagalog: lakdawnugan
Tajik: ультрасадо (ul'trasado)
Tamil: மீயொலி (mīyoli)
Tatar: ультратавыш (ul’tratawış)
Telugu: అతిధ్వనులు (te) (atidhvanulu)
Thai: อัลตราซาวนด์ (an-dtrâa-saao), อัลตร้าซาวด์ (an-dtrâa-saao)
Turkish: ultrason (tr), yansılanım (tr)
Turkmen: ultrases
Ukrainian: ультразву́к (uk) m (ulʹtrazvúk)
Urdu: بالا صَوت‎ (bālā saut)
Uzbek: ultratovush (uz)
Vietnamese: siêu âm (vi)
Welsh: uwchsain f
Western Panjabi: الٹرا ساؤنڈ‎
Yakut: ультразвук (ul’trazvuk)
Yiddish: אולטראַשאַל‎ (ultrashal)

use of ultrasound

Finnish: ultraäänihoito (therapy); ultraäänitutkimus (fi), ultraäänikuvaus (diagnosis), ultraääni (fi)
Italian: ecografia (it) f
Spanish: ultrasonido (es) m

Verb

ultrasound (third-person singular simple present ultrasounds, present participle ultrasounding, simple past and past participle ultrasounded)

(transitive, intransitive) To treat with ultrasound.

Hyponyms

ultrasonicate

Anagrams

undulators