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ultrasound

sound waves with frequencies above the human hearing range
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Summary

ultrasound ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,094 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: acoustic wave[2], medical service[3], visualization[4]
  • Commons category: Ultrasound[5]
  • Opposite of: infrasound[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ultrasound[7]
  • Studied by: ultrasonics[8]
  • Exact match: https://w3id.org/sstim/exposure#mediumFocusedUltrasound[9]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[10]
  • P14541: 3kfaMU[11]

Why It Matters

ultrasound has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] ultrasound is known by 88 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Rfabbri · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Exact match → https://w3id.org/sstim/exposure#mediumFocusedUltrasound
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Exact match: https://w3id.org/sstim/exposure#mediumFocusedUltrasound, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1788732538716"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3kfaMU
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 14w ago · Clemens Dulcis · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Studied by → ultrasonics
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Studied by: ultrasonics"
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0329881-ultrazvuk
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0329881-ultrazvuk, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 4698522
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → acoustic wave, medical service, visualization
    Subclass of → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 12085, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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