"OCT" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} OCT (uncountable)
  1. (medicine) Initialism of optical coherence tomography: an optical signal acquisition and processing method that captures high-resolution three-dimensional images from biological tissues. Wikipedia link: Optical coherence tomography Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: optical coherence tomography (extra: an optical signal acquisition and processing method that captures high-resolution three-dimensional images from biological tissues) Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-OCT-en-noun-FQS02~i5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: medicine, sciences

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