ct
IPA: kˈɔrt
Root Word: CT
noun
- (countable, medicine) A CT scan.
- Abbreviation of Connecticut, a state of the United States of America. [A state in the northeastern United States.]
- Initialism of Central Time. [The time zone in central North America corresponding to UTC minus six hours during standard time, and UTC minus five hours during daylight saving time]
- (Egyptology) Initialism of Coffin Texts. [A corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, written on coffins and developed from the earlier Pyramid Texts.]
- (medicine) Initialism of computed tomography. [A form of radiography which uses computer software to create images, or slices, at various planes of depth from images taken around a body or volume of interest. Sometimes called “computerized tomography”.]
- (medicine) Initialism of cold turkey. [Sudden and complete withdrawal from a dependent substance, especially a drug.]
- (slang) Initialism of cocktease.
- (slang) Initialism of camel toe. [(volleyball) Knurled fingers.]
- (military) Abbreviation of combat team.
- (molecular biology) Initialism of cycle threshold. [(molecular biology) The number of times a sample of DNA must be copied using PCR before the total amount of DNA detectable is above a certain cut-off.]
- Alternative form of Ct. [Court.]
- Abbreviation of court. [An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.]
verb
- (transitive, medicine, informal) To perform a CT scan on.
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Examples of "ct" in Sentences
- Most of the world signed the CT.
- The evaluation of the guards ct .
- CT shouldn't be front and center.
- The fourth dimension is ct, not t.
- The injury may not be detected on CT.
- If the CT is valid then it will prevail.
- CT angiography can be used in diagnosis.
- Cysts are detected with ultrasound or CT.
- As noted at the opening of the Rockville Ct.
- The fact that someone of the standing of Ct.