Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An image produced by radiation, usually by x-rays, and recorded on a radiosensitive surface, such as photographic film, or by photographing a fluoroscopic image.
- transitive verb To make a radiograph of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for measuring and recording the intensity of solar radiation.
- noun An impression produced on a sensitized plate by X-rays or the radiations from radioactive substances. See
ray andradioactivity . - To produce an image of upon a sensitized plate by means of X-rays or the rays emitted from a radioactive substance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make a radiograph of.
- noun An instrument for measuring and recording solar radiation.
- noun An image or picture produced upon a sensitive surface, as of a photographic or fluorescent plate, by some form of penetrating radiation other than light, as X-rays, beta rays, etc.; esp., a picture of the internal structure of opaque objects traversed by the rays; a skiagraph. When the picture is produced upon photographic film by X-rays, the picture is usually called an
X-ray photo orX-ray . When an image is produced on photographic film by a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film, in a manner so as to record the spatial distribution of the radioactive substance, the resulting image is called anautoradiograph or .autoradiogram
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an
image , often aphotographic negative , produced byradiation other than normal light; especially anX-ray photograph - verb To produce such an image
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
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Examples
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However, fetal lung lesions that seem to disappear on prenatal ultrasound and are not seen on neonatal chest radiograph still require evaluation by chest CT scan, which will frequently detect a lesion.
Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid 2010
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Gastric emptying via emesis or lavage should be performed in patients who have ingested greater than 40-60 mg./kg. of elemental iron or an unknown amount. 1 Activated charcoal is not useful, unless there are co-ingestants, since it does not bind metals such as iron. 1 Iron tablets are radiopaque, therefore, an abdominal radiograph should be performed to determine if there is evidence of iron tablets in the stomach or small bowel.
Iron Poisoning 2010
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The researchers measured bone mineral content and density by dual-energy radiograph absorptiometry DXA.
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The BB patient typically had a radiograph with "dirty lungs", more sputum production and centrilobular emphysema and was more likely to be hypercapneic and develop right sided heart failure.
Archive 2009-01-01 james gaulte 2009
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The radiograph and the report become part of your medical record.
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This difference in body tissue density is why bone (high body tissue density) appears white on a radiograph, as compared to fat (low body tissue density), which appears gray or air (no density), which appears black.
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An x-ray or radiograph is similar to having a photograph taken in a portrait studio.
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The BB patient typically had a radiograph with "dirty lungs", more sputum production and centrilobular emphysema and was more likely to be hypercapneic and develop right sided heart failure.
COPD-Should we consider it one disease ? james gaulte 2009
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The radiologic technologist (RT) will escort you to a dressing room where you will be given an examination gown (if necessary) and instructed to remove specific articles of your clothing that may interfere with the radiograph.
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If is important that the radiograph is free of artifacts (e.g. material from your clothing, snaps, buttons, clips, etc ...).
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