enhancement

noun — 2 senses

enhancement

noun

UK /ɪnˈhɑːns.mənt/ · US /ɪnˈhæns.mənt/

Etymology From enhance + -ment.

1

An improvement or supplement that tends to increase a sense of esteem.

The original product, with its simplistic design, has undergone many enhancements over the years.
Dawn mist rolling off the adjacent North Downs creates a sepia effect over the river with no need for digital enhancement.2021 July 14, “Modern Images”, in RAIL, number 935, page 37, photo caption:

2

Medicine, Radiology, Sciences The degree to which the image of a scan stands out as a bright area.

The enhancement characteristics of a PNET on CT may also have prognostic value, as lesions that hypoenhance on CT scan tend to have worse overall survival than lesions that are isoenhancing or hyperenhancing (5-year survival 54% vs 89% vs 93%).2016, Nuzhat A. Ahmad, Management of Pancreatic Diseases:

Derived terms: coenhancement, dehancement, disease enhancement, human enhancement, hyperenhancement, hypoenhancement, immunoenhancement, isoenhancement, male enhancement, neuroenhancement, nonenhancement, photoenhancement, progressive enhancement, radioenhancement

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