radiodiagnosticadj.n.
/ˌreɪdɪəʊˌdʌɪəɡˈnɒstɪk/, U.S. /ˌreɪdioʊˌdaɪəɡˈnɑstɪk/ Medicine.
A. adj.
Of or relating to radiodiagnosis.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > [adjective] > diagnostic > of specific methods of diagnosis
uromantical1623
differential1829
urinoscopic1889
scatologic1891
radiodiagnostic1907
immunodiagnostic1911
serological1911
scatological1924
non-invasive1968
1907 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 27 Apr. 1392/2 (heading) The correlation of clinical and radio~diagnostic findings.
1961 Lancet 29 July 257/1 Dr. C. Pickard..was..critical of past and future planning for radiodiagnostic departments.
2006 Ann. Plastic Surg. 56 128 Magnetic resonance (MR) and radionuclide imaging were used as radiodiagnostic tools.
B. n.
A radiolabelled compound used in an imaging or other diagnostic procedure.
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1965 Lancet 20 Feb. 443/2 For discussion are: auto-immune diseases and transplantation; steroids in diagnosis and treatment; and radioisotopes and radiodiagnostics.
1982 Jrnl. Medicinal Chem. 25 1115 The possible use of lipoproteins for the site-specific delivery of intravenously administered radiodiagnostics or highly potent drugs..appears promising.
1996 H. F. Solomon in E. S. Kimball ImmunoPharmaceuticals vii. 193 This chapter focuses on the development of radiodiagnostics for infection/inflammation imaging.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1907