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- noun Plural form of
fluoroscope .
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Examples
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The shoe fluoroscopes could deliver a worrisome dose, particularily if you used them repetitively as some people were wont to do.
Bad toys. Really bad toys. Ann Althouse 2006
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X-ray fluoroscopes, where the "invisible" X-radiation is allowed to strike a fluorescent screen, which then lights up.
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Have 'em use X-rays and fluoroscopes, rather than an autopsy.
Man of Many Minds 1925
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When localization by means of transparent films, fluoroscopy, and endobronchial bismuth insufflation has failed, the question arises as to the advisability of endoscopic excision of the tissue intervening between the foreign body and bronchoscope with the aid of two fluoroscopes, one for the lateral and the other the vertical plane.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The doctor placed in our hands a couple of fluoroscopes, an apparatus by which X-rays can be detected.
The Silent Bullet 1908
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The doctor placed in our hands a couple of fluoroscopes, an apparatus by which X-rays can be detected.
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Charlie Klein archcklein wrote: Any source for the fluoroscopes that were in shoe stores in the 1940s or 50s that showed the fit of the shoes with x-rays beamed directly up through the shoes on your feet to your eyes?
NPR Topics: News 2011
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In the ritual, shoe stores had fluoroscopes, a sales tool that supposedly helped to make sure shoes fit correctly by X-raying them for five seconds to 45 seconds - while they were on
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In the ritual, shoe stores had fluoroscopes, a sales tool that supposedly helped to make sure shoes fit correctly by X-raying them for five seconds to 45 seconds - while they were on a kid's feet.
Dallas / Fort Worth news, weather, sports, traffic and video from cbs11tv.com 2010
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Odden, an advanced-practice nurse from Manchester, said he is one of several dozen such nurses around Iowa who use fluoroscopes while treating patients with chronic pain.
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