X-ray picture
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈɛksˌreɪ ˈpɪkʧər/
- Specialized
:
imagen de rayos X
- Do you know what your skeleton looks like in them X-ray pictures?
Examples
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The divorce was postponed; the man came home again as a married man. In his hand was an envelope with X-ray pictures.
Fiction book (1997) -
They got... ...X-ray pictures of it.
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Shall I produce X-ray pictures to prove it?
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Of course, they took a lot of x-ray pictures, but this is the one that makes it look worse.
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Naked x-ray pictures are stored by the TSA.
Blog text (27) -
This would explain the x-ray pictures, which show that the corona is hotter above active regions.
Academic text (1991) -
The present study includes one bias that arose because the X-ray pictures were read by the author after the clinical examination of the child, and it is conceivable that this may have influenced the reading result.
Academic text (1998) -
You know, there was a time when doctor's couldn't take an X-ray picture of the brain, because the cranium was so thick, the only way they could get the X-ray to take a picture of an abnormality was to inject with colored dyes or air bubbles.
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The doctor showed her an X-ray picture to explain the fracture in her arm.
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After the surgery, they took an X-ray picture to check for any complications.
Synonyms
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3.9
An image of the inside of the body made by a medical machine
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3.4
A picture made with invisible light to show the inside of the body
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6.1
A picture made with X-rays to show inside the body
A picture of the inside of the body made with X-rays
An X-ray image used to look inside a body or object
A picture made with X-rays that shows the inside of the body
An image made with X-rays to show bones or other parts inside the body
How Informative
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'X-ray' (an image produced with X-rays) + 'picture' (an image), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to an image produced by X-rays. This noun-noun compounding is a common and transparent pattern cross-linguistically and in English medical vocabulary, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
X-ray picture comes from taking a picture with special rays called X-rays that pass through the body so bones and some organs show on the image. So an X-ray picture lets doctors 'see' inside the body to find broken bones or illness.