Definition of Pyelography

1. Noun. Roentgenography of the kidney and ureters (usually after injection with a radiopaque dye).

Generic synonyms: Roentgenography, X-ray Photography
Specialized synonyms: Intravenous Pyelography, Ivp

Definition of Pyelography

1. Noun. (medicine) radiography of the kidney, ureter and bladder following injection of a radiopaque substance ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyelography

pycnotic
pycrite
pye
pye-dog
pyebald
pyebalds
pyeing
pyelitic
pyelitides
pyelitis
pyelitises
pyelogram
pyelograms
pyelographic
pyelographically
pyelography (current term)
pyelonephritic
pyelonephritides
pyelonephritis
pyeloplasties
pyeloplasty
pyemia
pyemias
pyemic
pyengadu
pyengadus
pyes
pyet
pyets
pygal

Literary usage of Pyelography

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

1. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1917)
"EFFECTS OF RETENTION IN THE KIDNEY OF MEDIA EMPLOYED IN pyelography* WILLIAM ... Deaths which were evidently the direct result of pyelography were reported ..."

2. A Treatise of cystoscopy and urethroscopy by Georges Luys (1918)
"This method is known as pyelography. This procedure is complement to the determination of the capacity of the pelvis. It is evident that measurement of the ..."

3. The Clinical Diagnosis of Internal Diseases by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1916)
"Thorium—a new agent for pyelography; preliminary report. J. Am. M. Ass., ... A serifs of lantern slides illustrating pyelography. Tr. Internal. Conf. ..."

4. A Manual of Gynecology by John Cooke Hirst (1918)
"pyelography pyelography, or the injection into the pelvis of the kidney of a solution opaque to the #-ray, and then taking an #-ray picture, ..."

5. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technic: A Manual of Practical Procedures by Albert Sidney Morrow (1915)
"pyelography.—This consists in the injection of an opaque fluid into the ureter and renal ... pyelography ..."

6. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technic: A Manual of Practical Procedures by Albert Sidney Morrow (1921)
"... pyelography.—This consists in the injection of an opaque fluid into the ureter and renal pelvis followed by an immediate radiograph. ..."

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