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Fluoroscopy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Examination by means of a fluoroscope.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. examination using a fluoroscope

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Examination of an object, as the human body, by exposing it to the X rays and observing the shadow cast upon a fluorescent screen; cryptoscopy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The art of using the fluoroscope or of examining by means of a fluorescent screen, the shadows of bodies exposed to X-rays.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. examination of body structures using a fluoroscope

Word Usage

"The study also shows that the X-ray-guided form of spinal tap, called fluoroscopy-guided lumbar puncture, causes a doubling in risk of bleeding for patients older than"

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

radiology radioscopy

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

cryptoscopy

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

laparoscopy spectroscopy

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