autoradn.
/ˈɔːtə(ʊ)rad/, U.S. /ˈɔdəˌræd/, /ˈɔdoʊˌræd/, /ˈɑdəˌræd/, /ˈɑdoʊˌræd/ Originally and chiefly Science.
An autoradiograph, esp. as used in genetic analysis.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > [noun] > by means of a computer > photographs or images obtained by X-ray, etc.
thermotype1877
phosphorograph1880
shadow-picture1889
inductoscript1892
radiogram1896
radiograph1896
roentgenogram1896
shadowgraph1896
shadow-photograph1896
skiagram1896
skiagraph1896
X-radiograph1899
X-ray1900
autoradiograph1903
vaporograph1903
vapourgraph1903
radiophotograph1904
roentgenograph1905
microradiogram1913
radiophoto1915
powder photograph1917
interferogram1921
radioautograph1941
microradiograph1944
topograph1944
heat map1947
cinefluorograph1949
scan1953
thermogram1957
thermograph1964
cineradiograph1965
stereoscan1968
Kirlian1970
autorad1985
1985 Jrnl. Cell Biol. 100 1019 (in figure) Gel. Blot. Autorads.
1989 Science 2 June 74/3 This autoradiogram, or ‘autorad’, marks the final result of a procedure in which minute strands of DNA..are cleaved, sorted by size and visualized with radioactive, genetic probes.
1997 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 12 Feb. 4 a (caption) California Superior Court Judge Lance Ito holds a sample of an autoradiology picture of DNA sequences during O. J. Simpson's criminal trial in Los Angeles. The ‘autorad’ film depicts small bars that form the genetic patterns of a person's blood.
2007 Jrnl. Cell Biol. 179 365/3 To this very day, there's almost nothing I'd rather do than look at autorads.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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