roentgenoscopyn.
/ˌrʌntjəˈnɒskəpi/, /ˌrʌntɡəˈnɒskəpi/, /ˌrəːntɡəˈnɒskəpi/, U.S. /ˌrɛntɡəˈnɑskəpi/, /ˌrɛntdʒəˈnɑskəpi/ Medicine. Now rare.
= fluoroscopy n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > radiography or radiology > [noun] > specific techniques
fluorography1896
fluoroscopy1896
Roentgenism1898
roentgenoscopy1903
skiascopy1908
teleradiography1908
teleroentgenography1908
orthoroentgenography1911
pneumography1921
stereofluoroscopy1928
kymography1930
tomography1935
photofluorography1941
neutron radiography1948
pantomography1952
photofluoroscopy1955
orthopantomography1959
panography1961
stereoradiography1965
computerized axial tomography1973
computed tomography1974
computerized tomography1974
CT1974
positron emission tomography1976
PET1979
1903 Amer. Practitioner & News 36 39 The Roentgen rays are useful in locating the foreign bodies in the esophagus, and the best method is that of Roentgenoscopy, which at the same time enables us to push down a body and to observe its progress.
1917 L. F. Barker Monographic Med. II. 53 For some purposes, observation on the fluorescent screen (röntgenoscopy) is of greater value.
1999 Surg. Neurol. 52 546/2 On frontal roentgenoscopy it appears that the needle tip remains in the pedicle.
Derivatives
roentgenoˈscopic adj. now rare = fluoroscopic adj.
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1905 Arch. Physiol. Therapy 2 289/1 The physician who is constantly doing roentgenoscopic work is in special danger of ultimate personal injury from the deleterious action of the focus tube rays.
1919 J. C. Wilson & C. H. Turner Internal Med. (ed. 5) I. 393 The röntgenographic method of examination has a far wider field of usefulness than the röntgenoscopic.
1994 Dyes & Pigments 30 50 The C—C bond nonuniformity in PMD [= polymethine dyes] is confirmed by the roentgenoscopic evidence.
roentgenoˈscopically adv. now rare = fluoroscopically adv. at fluoroscopic adj. Derivatives.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > radiography or radiology > [adverb] > using specific techniques
fluoroscopically1896
roentgenoscopically1909
tomographically1937
photofluorographically1949
1909 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 137 420 The process, röntgenoscopically at least, slowly advances, and after weeks is recognized as tuberculosis.
1945 Amer. Jrnl. Roentgenol. 53 608/1 The alimentary canal as observed roentgenoscopically.
1992 P. Kostyuk Calcium Ions in Nerve Cell Function viii. 141 Such inequality has actually been demonstrated on nerve cells both photometrically and roentgenoscopically.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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