echogenous

English

Etymology

From echo +‎ -genous.

Adjective

echogenous (comparative more echogenous, superlative most echogenous)

1. (medicine) Able to reflect ultrasound waves; visible under ultrasonography.
   • 2007, Gautam Allahbadia, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, page 59:

     These advantages are more prominent in the obese patient in whom uniformly echogenous ovaries were often described with little added value to the diagnosis of PCOS.

   • 2012, Gabriel Kalifa, Pediatric Ultrasonography, page 304:

     The echostructure is mixed, cystic with more or less echogenous zones that are connective, fatty, or calcic structures.

   • 2017, Ibrahim Alkatout, ‎Liselotte Mettler, Hysterectomy: A Comprehensive Surgical Approach, page 92:

     The frontal scan on the left side of the image shows the EMJ as a low echogenous seam surrounding the middle and lower part of the endometrium.

Derived terms

• anechogenous