Definition of Arteriogram

1. Noun. An X ray of an artery filled with a contrast medium.


Definition of Arteriogram

1. Noun. An X-ray of an artery after injection with a radiopaque material ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Arteriogram

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Arteriogram

1. A radiographic technique where a radio-opaque (shows up on X-ray) contrast material is injected into a blood vessel for the purpose of identifying its anatomy on X-ray. This technique is used to image arteries in the brain, heart, kidneys, gastrointestinal tract, aorta, neck (carotids), chest, limbs and pulmonary circuit. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arteriogram

arteriectomy
arteries
arteries of cerebral haemorrhage
arteries of kidney
arterio-
arterio-contractile
arterioatony
arteriocapillary
arteriocapillary sclerosis
arteriococcygeal gland
arteriogeneses
arteriogenesis
arteriogenic
arteriogram (current term)
arteriograms
arteriographic
arteriographies
arteriography
arteriola
arteriola glomerularis afferens
arteriola glomerularis efferens
arteriola macularis inferior
arteriola macularis superior
arteriola medialis retinae
arteriola nasalis retinae inferior
arteriola nasalis retinae superior
arteriola temporalis retinae inferior
arteriola temporalis retinae superior

Literary usage of Arteriogram

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

1. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"... and arteriogram in the Youthful Type of Irregularity . . 827 239. ... and arteriogram in Pulsus irregularis perpetuus with Atrial Paralysis 840 259. ..."

2. Clinical Cardiology by Selian Neuhof (1917)
"172 — arteriogram of sinus slowing. 173 — arteriogram of slight sinus arrhythmia ... 199 — arteriogram showing slight alternation. 200-201 — arteriograms of ..."

3. Diseases of the chest and the principles of physical diagnosis by George William Norris, Henry Robert Murray Landis, Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1920)
"Many cases that show well-marked alternation in the arteriogram fail to show any abnormality in the electrocardiogram; evidence that the "R" peak is not a ..."

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