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  1. CT scanner, or CAT scanner.
  2. Medical device used to obtain detailed X-ray
  3. pictures of the inside of a patient's body.
  4. The body is examined in slices, and an
  5. overall picture is built up from the results
  6. by computer. This technique is called
  7. tomography.
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