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scan

2 noun
     
Related topics: Hospital
scan2
1MH [countable] a medical test in which a special machine produces a picture of something inside your body:
The scan showed that she was expecting twins.
a brain scan
2 [singular] when you read something quickly
scan of
a quick scan of the newspapers
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