Definition of Shadowgraph

1. Noun. A photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays).


Definition of Shadowgraph

1. Noun. (physics) An optical technique of visualizing patterns of fluid flow by using differences in refractive index ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) An X-ray image. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shadowgraph

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shadowgraph

shadow play
shadow plays
shadow show
shadow test
shadowbox
shadowboxed
shadowboxer
shadowboxes
shadowboxing
shadowcasting
shadowe
shadowed
shadower
shadowers
shadowes
shadowgraph (current term)
shadowgraphies
shadowgraphs
shadowgraphy
shadowier
shadowiest
shadowily
shadowiness
shadowinesses
shadowing
shadowing (histology)
shadowings
shadowish
shadowland
shadowlands

Literary usage of Shadowgraph

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

1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"Roentgenogram, JS, May 17, 1920, showing stone in right ureter lying beside shadowgraph catheter. an inch across. I passed a thick, windowless drain- tube ..."

2. Transactions of the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons by American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons (1920)
"For instance, given the presence of a shadow along the course of the ureter so that one is not sure of its being in the ureter after the shadowgraph ..."

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