How to Use ultrasound in a Sentence

ultrasound

noun
  • 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
  • Each time a doctor examined the blood flow and size of the twins' hearts on the ultrasound, the story was the same.
    Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • 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 ultrasound showed about half a dozen cysts inside both breasts.
    Rebekah Kuschmider, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • 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 when the doctor performed the ultrasound, there was no sound.
    The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • An ultrasound revealed a blockage in his leg, cutting off the flow of blood to his foot.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 July 2021
  • About a decade ago, researchers found a way to adapt ultrasound for brain imaging.
    Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Through an ultrasound and biopsy, the doctor revealed that Ware had a growth in her chest.
    al, 8 Oct. 2021
  • But when the doctor performed the ultrasound, there was no sound, and she was told to come back the next day for her procedure.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Testing is straightforward, with a Doppler ultrasound of the blood vessels of the legs.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 3 June 2021
  • 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
  • An ultrasound found the whoosh of another’s heart rate.
    Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2021
  • My doctor rushes and almost injects the sperm before the nurse has the ultrasound in place.
    refinery29.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • But doctors can utilize pelvic exams, blood tests, and transvaginal ultrasounds if necessary to check for signs of the cancer.
    Kristen Fischer, Health, 27 Dec. 2024
  • This is similar to a liver ultrasound, but uses an MRI machine.
    Kelly Burch Published, Verywell Health, 16 Dec. 2024

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