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Definition of Roentgenoscope

1. Noun. An X-ray machine that combines an X-ray source and a fluorescent screen to enable direct observation.

Definition of Roentgenoscope

1. Noun. a fluoroscope ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Roentgenoscope

1. A fluoroscope is an imaging device that uses X-rays to view internal body structures on a screen. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roentgenoscope

Literary usage of Roentgenoscope

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

1. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1918)
"Furthermore, in the standing position in which the roentgenoscope is ... The roentgenoscope has undoubtedly its use in the study of the stomach and the ..."

2. Roentgenotherapy by Albert Franklin Tyler (1918)
"roentgenoscope: An apparatus for examination with the fluoroscopic screen ... Examination by means of the roentgenoscope. Roentgenography : The art of ..."

3. Army Dentistry: Forsyth Lectures for the Army Dental Reserve Corps edited by Frederick Anthony Keyes (1918)
"roentgenoscope: An apparatus for examination with the fluorescent screen ... Examination by means of the roentgenoscope. ROENTGENOGRAPHY : The art of making ..."

4. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"... the bronchoscope, the cystoscope, the roentgenoscope and a hundred other devices. The senses of smell and of taste are chemical senses that, unaided, ..."

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