Noun[edit] malapropism â(plural malapropisms) (uncountable) The blundering use of an absurdly inappropriate word or expression in place of a similar-sounding one.
Definition of positron. : a positively charged particle having the same mass and magnitude of charge as the electron and constituting the antiparticle of the electron âcalled also antielectron.
Positron emission tomographyâcomputed tomography is a nuclear medicine technique which combines, in a single gantry, a positron emission tomography scanner and an x-ray computed tomography scanner, to acquire sequential images from both devices in the same session, which are combined into a single superposed image. Thus, functional imaging obtained by PET, which depicts the spatial distribution of metabolic or biochemical activity in the body can be more precisely aligned or correlated ...