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coronal view

coronal view

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A view that shows the body from front to back along a vertical cut
  • noun
  • /kəˈroʊnəl vju/
  • Specialized
translation icon : vista coronal
  • During the MRI scan, the technician showed me a coronal view to help me understand the findings.

Examples

  • The doctor explained the procedure using a coronal view to illustrate the anatomy of the heart.

  • A coronal view on T1-weighted MRI shows DIEP flap use for lateral skull-base reconstruction.

    Academic text (2005)

  • In the anatomy class, we learned about the coronal view and how it divides the body into front and back sections.

Surface Forms

coronal view singular
coronal views plural

Morphology

coronal + view

While 'coronal' and 'view' separately suggest a perspective related to the crown/head, the precise anatomical sense—a vertical plane dividing front and back—is technical and not directly inferable from the everyday meanings. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words might guess a head-related perspective but would likely not derive the specific anatomical plane without prior exposure, so the expression is only partially predictable.

Etymology

Coronal view comes from imagining a vertical cut from one ear to the other that separates the body's 'front' and 'back'. So, a coronal view is the picture doctors use to see the body's 'front' and 'back' parts.