radiogram
- noun
- /ˈreɪdiəˌɡræm/
- Specialized
- After the X-ray, the technician showed us the radiogram of my broken arm.
Examples
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The doctor examined the radiogram to diagnose the lung condition.
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PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): Figure 10. Design II. Lateral and dorsoventral radiogram taken after a 4-week field test by the subject. The bones show multiple fractures and fragmentation.
Academic text (1990) -
She plucks out an opera record to play on her radiogram.
Fiction book (1994) -
Juliet drops to the floor, hauling records out of the radiogram cabinet.
Fiction book (1994) -
The radiogram revealed the intricate details of the fossil without damaging it.
Synonyms
A picture made with invisible light to show the inside of the body
A picture made with X-rays to show inside the body
A picture made with X rays that shows the inside of the body
An image made by X-rays that shows the inside of the body
An image made by X-rays that shows the inside of the body
A picture made with X-rays that shows the inside of the body
A picture of the inside of the body made with X-rays
A picture made by X-rays that shows the inside of things
A photo on film that shows where a radioactive substance is in a sample
A medical scan that shows where a small safe radioactive material goes in the body
A series of X-ray pictures doctors take of the heart and its blood vessels after they inject dye
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Radiogram comes from the parts radio- meaning 'ray' and -gram meaning 'something written', the same -gram you see in telegram. So a radiogram is literally a 'picture made by rays', for example an X-ray image doctors use.