pitch (2)
(pich)
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[Middle English pichen fr Old English piccean, pīcian, to prick]
1. That quality of sound that enables one to classify it in a scale from high to low. The pitch is dependent principally on frequency of vibrations.
2. In radiography, the table speed divided by the width of the x-ray beam.
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Pitch (2)." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737924/0/pitch__2_.
Pitch (2). In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737924/0/pitch__2_. Accessed November 4, 2024.
Pitch (2). (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737924/0/pitch__2_
Pitch (2) [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2024 November 04]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737924/0/pitch__2_.
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