Sunday, May 31, 2015

Is 'ultrasounded' a word?

I told my wife that I had my former cat 'ultrasounded'.  I said that the vet suspected cancer, so I took her to the specialty vet and had her ultrasounded.  That sounded kind of off, and so did she.

I looked it up on Google, and can't find a definitive answer.  Spell check here doesn't like it, as well.  She said I could say, 'I took her to the vet and had an ultrasound done', but that seems unnecessarily long.

If poor Uggs had had an X-ray, I could say, 'I had my cat X-rayed'.  So why not say ultrasounded.

Makes sense to me.

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