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As you are doing a scan, you see examples of real hearts, comparing the scan you just acquired to hearts with varying degrees of contraction, an indication of heart function.

Currently, scans frequently take more than half an hour, and children are often sedated or anesthetized to help doctors capture good images.

From Fortune

These products film students in their homes and often require them to complete “room scans,” which involve using their camera to show their surroundings.

Brain scans have detected the so-called “neural correlates” of breakfast, neuronal activity correlated with, say the consumption of a cantaloupe.

In April, astronauts on board the space station successfully used the software to perform kidney and bladder ultrasound scans without help from ground control.

Not long after I was finally diagnosed, my doctor ordered a bone density scan.

His first prescription when I saw him was to have the CAT scan test that I had been forced to postpone for a month and a half.

The fMRI scan measures blood flow in the brain, and can sense when certain areas are activated.

Prince William was seen clutching an envelope, when they left, most likely containing images of the scan.

If this was indeed the 12-week scan, we wil probably soon get an announcement from the palace concerning Kate's due date.

I could hardly believe the verses would scan by daylight, but I can't find a mistake.

Scan the line by reading—Glorius virgn', of all-e flur-es flur.

In his capacity of Indian agent Walter Lowell often had occasion to scan the business deals of his more progressive wards.

Who has not devoured the classical dictionary before he has learned to scan the lines of Homer or of Virgil?

Still the host pressed on, though, far back as eye might scan, the carcasses and the crows marked out the line of marching.

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On this page you'll find 97 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scan, such as: browse, check, examine, flash, flip through, and leaf through.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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