arteriogram

2 7.8

An X-ray picture of an artery after dye is injected

noun
/ɑːrˈtɪr.i.əˌɡræm/

Specialized

: arteriograma

The doctors examined the arteriogram to identify any blockages in the patient's arteries.

Examples

Well, what we missed in the EEG and the arteriograms... ... could conceivably turn up there.

The Exorcist (1973)
PE was confirmed if supported by a high-probability lung scan, a positive pulmonary arteriogram, or necropsy.

Academic text (1999)
I'll look down your throat, do some films... ...get a CAT scan, maybe an arteriogram... ...and I'd like an unbiased eye to look at those EEG tracings.

Altered States (1980)
After the X-ray was taken, the arteriogram revealed signs of narrowing in the blood vessels.
An arteriogram helps doctors visualize the blood flow in the arteries after a contrast dye is injected.

Synonyms

angiogram

vsarteriogram

Specialized

9 6.5

An X-ray picture that shows blood vessels after a dye is injected

is limited to a single artery image rather than any vessel

angiography

vsarteriogram

Specialized

2 5.7

A medical test that uses injected dye to show the inside of blood vessels

is the specific X-ray image of one artery produced by that method

arteriography

vsarteriogram

Specialized

7.9

A medical X-ray image of the body's arteries after injection of a dye

is the single X-ray picture produced by that procedure

Surface Forms

arteriogram singular

arteriograms plural

Morphology

arteriogram = artery (semi-transparent) = arterio + gram

The elements signal 'artery' + '-gram' (a record/image), but the combining form '-gram' and the medical sense are somewhat specialized and not fully obvious to average learners.

Etymology

The word arteriogram starts with arterio-, from the same root as artery meaning 'a blood vessel', and ends with -gram, a part that means 'a record' or 'something written', like in telegram. So an arteriogram is a 'record' or picture of an artery, which matches its use as an X-ray image that shows the blood vessel.