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angiography|ændʒɪˈɒgrəfɪ|
[f. angio- + -γραϕία writing about: see -graphy.]
1. A description of instruments, vessels, etc., used by any nation.
1727–51Chambers Cycl., Angeiography also includes the consideration of the weights, measures, &c. used by the several nations.
2. A description of the blood-vessels. Recently extended to denote the examination of the blood vessels by radiography. Hence angioˈgraphic a., of or pertaining to angiography.
1731Bailey, Angeiography. 1847Craig, Angiography. [1933Egas Moniz & Alves in Rev. Neurologique XL. i. 375 Dans le domaine radiologue nous obtenons non seulement l'artériographie du cerveau mais aussi les angiographies du passage du thorotrast par les capillaires et par les veines du cerveau.] 1933Lancet 18 Nov. 1157/2 By taking a series of radiograms at intervals of one second, it has been found possible to display the cerebral veins and sinuses as well as arteries, and Moniz has therefore changed the name of the procedure from arteriography to angiography. 1950P. Almeida Lima Cerebral Angiography vii. 156 The localization of aneurysms in the arterial region is almost always clear and well defined in the angiographic images. Ibid. x. 212 The angiographic method lends itself to application in physiological studies of the cerebral circulation. 1955Gloss. Terms Radiology (B.S.I.) 56 Angiography, the radiological examination of blood vessels following direct injection of a contrast medium. 1956Acta Radiologica XLVI. 480 (title) Angiographic Appearances in Transtentorial Herniation of the Brain.
Add: angioˈgraphically adv., by means of angiography.
1965Jrnl. Canad. Assoc. Radiologists XVI. 190/1 Two cases [of arterial occlusion] diagnosed angiographically. 1977Lancet 23 Apr. 901/2 Four patients in whom spontaneous attacks of angina were compared angiographically with ergonovine-induced attacks. 1987Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 June 1577/1 Other studies of normolipaemic patients with angiographically defined obstructive coronary artery disease. |