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Voxel
Meaning: Three-dimensional unit of volume that makes up a digital CT or MRI image.
In practice: Reducing the voxel size improved spatial resolution, allowing the small fracture to be seen clearly.
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Which word means: Describing a lesion that balloons the outline of a bone, usually thinning the cortex.
Answer: Expansile
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Answer: Extrapleural
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