Doppler

See also: doppler

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Doppler

1. A surname from German

Derived terms

• Doppler broadening
• Doppler echocardiography
• Doppler effect
• Doppler fetal monitor
• Doppler radar
• Doppler sonography
• Doppler ultrasound
• Doppler ultrasonography
• Doppler velocity
• DOVAP
• Pulse-Doppler radar

See also

• Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and physicist.

Noun

Doppler (uncountable)

1. Short for Doppler ultrasonography.
   • 2017, Govind Nandakumar, Evidence Based Practices in Gastrointestinal & Hepatobiliary Surgery, page 19:

     Evaluation of the hepatic veins with color Doppler may demonstrate portalization of hepatic vein with loss of the normal triphasic pattern, a flattened hepatic vein, or turbulence if the hepatic vein is compressed.