Ultrasound Terminology

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Echogenic
Something that generates echoes. It is bright gray on the screen.
Echopenic
Poor echoes, darker
Hyperechoic
Brighter than another region
Hypo echoic
Ow echoes, darker than another area.
Isoecohic
Same echogenicitiy
Anechoic
No Echoes, completely black.clear fluids appear anechoic.
Homogenous
Same texture through out.
Heterogenous
Mixed pattern, mixed texture.
Cystic
Like a cyst. rounded thin walled and anechoic distal enhancement.
Solid
Made up of tissue/ no cyst areas.
Complex
Both cystic and solid components.
Ellipsoid (rounded)
A closed quadric surface that is a three-dimensional analogue of an eclipse.
Ovate (rounded)
Having an oval outline, like an egg.
Labulated
Several lobes. A lobulation is an appearance resembling lobules.
Pedunculate
A mass attached by a stalk.