Each tissue type, such as liver, spleen or kidney, has a particular echogenicity in its normal state. In diseased states, the echogenicity of an organ can be altered, either more echogenic (hyperechoic) or less echogenic (hypoechoic) than usual.
burn up. v. 1. To destroy something or someone by fire or heat: She burned the contract up. He burned up all the photographs. 2. To be completely destroyed by fire or heat: The cabin burned up, leaving only ashes.
to burn to ashes meaning, to burn to ashes definition | English Cobuild dictionary. burn. The past tense and past participle is burned in American English, and burned or burnt in British English. 1 verb If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there. Fires were burning out of control in the center of the city... V. There was a fire burning in the large fireplace... V. 2 verb If something is burning, it is on fire.