Scan means To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely. This page lists 20 example sentences from real texts, plus synonyms like examine or search.
Scan in a sentence
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Scan meaning
- To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
- To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
Synonyms of Scan
Scan in Dutch
Example sentences (20)
A request was made for a consultant review, including a cervical scan as Amber had not yet received an appointment.
After gruelling chemotherapy and radiotherapy, an MRI scan showed the cancer had spread to his brain stem and spine.
Emma Fox, 35, suffered a seizure out of the blue in 2021 and a scan later revealed her brain tumour had returned.
A scan can’t give doctors every bit of information they want but, Dr. Mahoney said, it is invaluable to the trauma team.
A scan before his surgery gave the news presenter “a beacon of hope”, showing that the cancer had not spread.
An internal vulnerability scan looks for issues such as misconfigured settings, weak passwords, and vulnerable open ports.
As I was leaving there was a young girl being pushed in for a scan post-surgery with what looked like major brain surgery.
He was transferred to the University Hospital of Durham and received a CT scan which showed he had suffered a brain bleed.
Finally, make sure you have an up-to-date program installed on your computer and run a full system scan.
He also co-created Osama Bin Hulk with me, Rich Johnston, for the comic published by Brain Scan Studios.
If errors or inconsistencies are found during the scan, you will be given the option to repair them automatically or manually.
A major discomfort for inpatients at the hospital who might just need a simple chest scan to diagnose illnesses like pneumonia.
As part of wide-ranging changes, it was announced in the summer only stamps barcodes you can scan would be valid to send letters.
Click on “iPhone” in the “select your phone” section and scan the barcode on your PC to pair your device with the Phone Link app.
His normally “lively, positive little girl” will undergo a spinal tap and head scan this week; next week her chemotherapy begins.
He is top fit I think if we were to scan him the majority of the bones are aged 19 or 20! He just keeps himself in such good shape.
However, a scan showed no tear in the muscle and the midfielder was instead suffering from fatigue.
According to the Telegraph, a 'second scan' has revealed the injury could be worse than feared.
Birds of prey, including golden eagles, scan the procession from distant rocks for a potential meal, though such opportunities are rare.
Eventually – after insisting on lots of tests – they did a CT scan, by which point she was very breathless and couldn’t breathe properly.
Common combinations with scan
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to scan 28×
- scan the 23×
- ct scan 22×
- scan and 18×
- mri scan 17×
- the scan 13×
- scan to 10×
- and scan 9×
- scan of 8×
- scan showed 7×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word scan. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.