scintillographn.
/sɪnˈtɪləɡrɑːf/, /sɪnˈtɪləɡraf/, U.S. /sɪnˈtɪləˌɡræf/ 1. Photography. A camera that employs the scintillations from a radioactive substance to produce an image. rare.
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1908 Photogr. News 17 Apr. 383/1 Many [photographers] will have made impressions by means of the little piece of apparatus often called the scintillograph, whose continual flashes of light, due to the minute fragment of radium-containing substance inside them, are capable of producing an image on a plate in a very few minutes.
2. Chiefly Medicine = scintigraph n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > radiography or radiology > scanning > [noun] > image or record produced by
B-scan1947
scintillograph1950
scintigram1952
scan1953
scintiscan1954
photoscan1956
scintigraph1957
scintillogram1958
1950 H. Sobotka in O. Glasser Med. Physics II. 550/2 The scintillograph and subsequently the methods of x-ray diffraction, x-ray crystallography and electron diffraction have rendered the atom a visible entity.
1975 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 16 June 54 Included are..scintillagraphs that can trace radioactive materials and record their progress in the body.
1994 Urology 43 564/2 Persistence of hip pain prompted a radiologic evaluation including plain films and a bone scintilligraph.
2011 Fertlilty & Sterility 95 1381/2 Radioactivity was measured by the scintillograph method.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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