pyelographyn.
/ˌpʌɪəˈlɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /ˌpaɪəˈlɑɡrəfi/ Medicine.
Radiological examination of the kidney and ureter, esp. using a radio-opaque contrast material injected either intravenously or into the renal pelvis or ureter; an instance of this.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > radiography or radiology > [noun] > examination of specific parts
arthrography1857
pyelography1906
renography1911
ureterography1912
pneumoventriculography1918
ventriculography1918
encephalography1922
cholecystography1925
urography1925
arteriography1928
angiography1930
sialography1931
pneumoencephalography1932
planigraphy1933
urethrography1933
lymphography1935
placentography1935
salpingography1935
venography1935
cholangiography1936
mammography1937
myelography1937
phlebography1937
angiocardiography1938
neuroradiology1938
lymphangiography1941
nephrography1947
splenoportography1953
pancreatography1955
sinography1957
pharyngography1981
1906 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 14 Apr. 1149/2 Pyelography.—Voelcker and Lichtenberg have coined this term for radiography of the kidney and ureter after these structures have been filled with a solution of a silver salt.
1930 Lancet 11Oct. 819/1 Mr. Marshall recalled a case on whom he had performed a pyelography without finding evidence of a calculus or stricture.
1975 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 Dec. 2/1 In pyelography, a contrast medium, the ‘dye’, is injected intravenously.
2004 Urol. Internat. 72 Suppl. 40 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of magnetic resonance (MR) pyelography in patients affected by hydronephrosis due to ureteric stones.
Derivatives
ˈpyelograph n. = pyelogram n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > radiography or radiology > [noun] > an X-radiograph > of specific parts
pyelograph1913
pyelogram1914
ventriculogram1918
urogram1925
cholecystogram1927
encephalogram1928
arteriogram1929
sialogram1931
phlebogram1933
pneumoencephalogram1935
venogram1935
mammogram1937
myelogram1937
angiocardiogram1939
splenoportogram1953
placentogram1959
sinogram1961
phlebograph1967
mammograph1968
1913 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 18 Jan. 184/2 A pyelograph is taken while the fluid is being injected and the pelvis or the ureter is kept as full as possible at the time the exposure is being made.
1973 Lancet 20 Jan. 130/1 Other stone-forming disorders..were excluded by thorough history, physical examination, and intravenous pyelograph.
2005 Rheumatol. Internat. 25 419 Plain supine abdominal radiographs and intravenous pyelographs were evaluated.
pyeloˈgraphic adj. of or relating to pyelography.
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1913 Ann. Surg. 57 890 Because of this failure the pyelographic work was repeated after the lapse of some five weeks.
1943 K. F. Meyer in Ess. Biol. in Honor of Herbert M. Evans 446 A hemorrhagic cystitis without significant cystoscopic and pyelographic findings.
2002 Radiology 225 783 Patients with hematuria or a suspicious renal mass underwent CT urography, during which..pyelographic phase scanning was performed.
pyeloˈgraphically adv. by means of pyelography; as viewed or studied by pyelography.
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1929 Lancet 1 June 1161/1 If the obstruction is of more than fleeting duration an impress is left on the kidney which can be recognised pyelographically.
1976 Jrnl. Urol. 115 591 Of the renal units judged normal pyelographically preoperatively in the early group 77 per cent went on to at least some deterioration.
1987 Urology 29 332/2 The failure to visualize the kidney pyelographically may be due to agenesis or severe renal pathology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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