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Definition of Roentgenography

1. Noun. Radiography that uses X-rays to produce a roentgenogram.

Definition of Roentgenography

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Medical Definition of Roentgenography

1. The making of film records (radiographs) of internal structures of the body by passage of X-rays or gamma rays through the body to act on specially sensitised film. Origin: Gr. Graphein = to write This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roentgenography

Literary usage of Roentgenography

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of the Digestive Organs: With Special Reference to Their Diagnosis by Charles Dettie Aaron (1921)
"... which is probably ulcer. This test gains in value the more I use it. Fio. SS.—A negativ» sui OR. Fio. 84.—A positivo string. Roentgenography is ..."

2. Pulmonary Tuberculosis by Maurice Fishberg (1922)
"For this reason, roentgenography, while a very important aid in diagnosis, ... When properly used, roentgenography helps materially in disclosing certain ..."

3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"Some new positions are described by the author, among them a new position for fractures of the occiput and a position for transrectal roentgenography of the ..."

4. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1920)
"Weld, EH: The Use of Sodium Bromid in Roentgenography, Jour. Amer. Med., Assoc., Ixxi, 1111, 1112, October 5, 1918. 8. Weld, EH: The Toxicity of ..."

5. Physical diagnosis by Wallace Dickinson Rose (1917)
"CHAPTER VII Roentgenography AND FLUOROSCOPY The roentgen rays, by virtue of their power of penetrating anatomic and pathologic structures in direct ..."

6. History of Michigan by Charles Moore (1915)
"... in Diseases of Stomach and Intestines," "Further Observations on the Roentgenography of the Stomach and Intestines," "Soft Tissue Roentgenography. ..."

7. Transactions of the American Roentgen Ray Society by American Roentgen Ray Society (1905)
"It is unfortunately true, as Koehler remarks, in speaking of the Roentgenography of bones, that "there are not only thousands of ordinary physicians, ..."

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