How to Use ultrasound in a Sentence

ultrasound

noun
Definition of ultrasoundnext
  • She showed me an ultrasound of her unborn baby.
  • She had an ultrasound this morning.
  • They used ultrasound to examine his heart.
  • She had an ultrasound exam this morning.
  • The ultrasound found a cyst on her left ovary, the lawsuit states.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 July 2023
  • The ultrasound of his heart wouldn’t hurt, Eapen promised.
    — Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The dating ultrasound goes well, but what if the 11 week one doesn’t?
    — Amanda Allen, ELLE, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Then came the ultrasound at 18 weeks, and their world turned upside down.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • The ultrasound showed that there was a sac filled with fluid on the baby’s neck.
    — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2022
  • The rest of the ultrasound wasn’t so bad, though: The familiar feeling of gel on her stomach, the sight of her uterus in grayscale.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2022
  • But the ultrasound tech refused to sign off on the exception.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The mammogram did not pick up the cancer; the ultrasound did.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2022
  • Phillips' last ultrasound had been one week and three days before, and the fetus had a heartbeat then.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • In the clip, Sterling held on tight to her brother's hand, as well as a set of ultrasound photos.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 19 July 2024
  • At that time, there was no ultrasound, so to be pregnant was much more abstract.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
  • In the post, the family is seen smiling on the front porch steps of a home while Robertson holds images of an ultrasound.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The same goes for the ultrasound technician who first detected the group of four and delivered the news to a shocked Ness.
    — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 28 July 2022
  • But an ultrasound four months later showed that most of the baby’s organs were outside the body.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
  • My doctor rushes and almost injects the sperm before the nurse has the ultrasound in place.
    — refinery29.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The same goes for the ultrasound technician who briefly abandoned Ness.
    — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2022
  • By week 18, her MFM was seeing more and more issues on ultrasound.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Patrick was dressed in light colors as were the children, who held their mom’s ultrasound photos.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2024
  • One day in 2017, Kisa, pregnant again, planned a visit to show Mr. Holmes the ultrasound of his granddaughter.
    — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The ultrasound at 12 weeks told us that this was not a pregnancy that was going to progress and was weeks away from ending on its own.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 11 July 2022
  • The ultrasound doesn’t take long, and the image is unmistakable.
    — Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN, 26 Sep. 2022
  • And in the hours after that ultrasound, Fletcher's whole outlook changed.
    — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 20 July 2022
  • At 18 to 22, an ultrasound anatomy scan of the baby’s heart, brain, lungs, bones, stomach, fingers, and toes.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022
  • One is a simple ultrasound that detects whether a child with sickle cell is at risk of having a stroke.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Depending on the injection site, the healthcare provider may use an X-ray or ultrasound to see the inflamed area.
    — Alex Yampolsky, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Kidney biopsy: Using an ultrasound to visualize the kidneys, your healthcare provider will insert a needle through the skin to remove a small tissue sample from the kidney.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 19 Oct. 2024

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