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- noun obtaining images by the use of X rays
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Examples
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We can't have the American system of scanning and x-raying everything, because that's not good for the patients.
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Body scanning devices in more than 60 US airports are common now, x-raying far more than our feet when we bought those new shoes.
William Spear: Adapting to a New World of Invisible Toxins William Spear 2011
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Stewart hung in there, proving her case, but it took until the 1980s before doctors stopped x-raying pregnant women, all the while "experts" were reassuring us that the technology was safe.
Gayle Greene: Airport Body Scanners: More Radiation Than You Think? Gayle Greene 2011
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You raise patients' anxiety levels, and if you start x-raying people the whole time, you could end up causing cancers.
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Hugh Turvey, currently working with the British Institute of Radiology makes x-ray animations by taking appliances to pieces, x-raying them, and then reconstructing movements with software.
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Stewart hung in there, proving her case, but it took until the 1980s before doctors stopped x-raying pregnant women, all the while "experts" were reassuring us that the technology was safe.
Gayle Greene: Airport Body Scanners: More Radiation Than You Think? Gayle Greene 2011
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So contrary were her findings to what everyone was sure of that doctors went right on x-raying pregnant women.
Gayle Greene: Airport Body Scanners: More Radiation Than You Think? Gayle Greene 2011
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While I echo the sentiments of Pat and others, I must say that using “intelligence” to screen more people named “Umar” from abroad is a significantly better plan than x-raying* all of our crotches, breasts, and love-handles.
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So contrary were her findings to what everyone was sure of that doctors went right on x-raying pregnant women.
Gayle Greene: Airport Body Scanners: More Radiation Than You Think? Gayle Greene 2011
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Hugh Turvey, currently working with the British Institute of Radiology makes x-ray animations by taking appliances to pieces, x-raying them, and then reconstructing movements with software.
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