radiologyn.
/ˌreɪdɪˈɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌreɪdiˈɑlədʒi/ 1. The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of disease by means of X-rays, other forms of ionizing radiation, and (in later use) other imaging techniques (such as ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging). Also: radiological examination (often of a part of the body); radiological characteristics of a disease, part of the body, etc.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > radiography or radiology > [noun]
actinography1896
radiography1896
X-radiography1896
radioscopy1897
roentgenography1899
X-raying1899
radiology1900
roentgenology1904
society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > [noun] > by means of a computer > study or process of X-ray, etc.
thermography1840
phosphorography1886
radiography1896
scotography1896
shadow-photography1896
radiophotography1897
roentgenography1899
typoradiography1899
radiology1900
microradiography1913
Laue1915
powder photography1924
stereofluoroscopy1928
cineradiography1934
cinefluorography1936
autoradiography1941
radioautography1941
xeroradiography1950
skiagraphy1957
stereoradiography1965
1900 Times 6 Feb. 10/1 At the request of the French society of electrotherapy and radiology, an international congress of medical electrology and radiology is to be held in connexion with the international congress of 1900.
1920 Lancet 11 Dec. 1187/1 In this way he was able to elaborate his methods and to clear up many difficult points in the radiology of stasis.
1928 Daily Express 6 Dec. 7/4 A specialist in radiology and electrical treatment.
1938 S. C. Shanks et al. Text-bk. X-Ray Diagnosis I. p. vii Diagnostic radiology is becoming an increasingly complex specialty, and it is difficult for one person to be equally expert in all its branches.
1949 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 37 477 This book presents the rudiments of electrocardiography, phonocardiography, and radiology of the heart in a simple, concise manner.
1959 W. T. Moss Therapeutic Radiol. i. 23 The selective destruction of tissues forms the basis of therapeutic radiology.
1980 D. Sutton Textbk. Radiol. & Imaging p. vii/1 When the last edition of this book was published in 1975 Radio-isotope Scanning was well established and Ultrasound had already made a major impact on radiology.
2004 U.S. News & World Rep. 12 July 59/2 Interventional radiology, or IR, grew out of diagnostic procedures to track down disease in blood vessels.
2. A branch of science concerned with the study of radioactivity. rare. Now disused.
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1905 A. M. Clerke Syst. Stars (ed. 2) vi. 80 The many suggestions of ‘radiology’ (as the new science of radioactivity might be designated) cannot be inconsiderately set aside.
Derivatives
radiˈologist n. [compare French radiologiste (1905)] a person employing ionizing radiation or radioactive material in any field; spec. a physician specializing in radiology.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > using specific instrument > X-ray techniques
radiographer1896
skiagrapher1896
radiologist1905
lymphangiographer1973
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > others
bell-hanger1540
powder monkey1670
articulator1798
universalist1801
sander1854
gummer?1881
shaver1885
wire-cutter1888
knacker1890
radiologist1905
groundhog1926
dogman1948
1905 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 18 Aug. 4/7 In September there will be a world's fair in Belgium, at which there will be a congress of the radiologists of the world.
1971 Lancet 29 May 1124/1 A radiologist to the N.H.S. is medical and a radiographer non-medical.
1990 S. Maitland Three Times Table iii. ii. 207 The radiologist apologetically but firmly positioned Phoebe in front of a ferocious-looking machine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1900