scintiscann.
/ˈsɪntᵻskan/, U.S. /ˈsɪn(t)əˌskæn/ Medicine.
An X-ray image obtained with a scintiscanner, a scintigram; esp. one made using a moving scanning camera.
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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
1954 Contrib. Atomic Energy to Med.: Hearings before Joint Atomic Energy Comm. (83rd U.S. Congr., 2nd Sess.) 69 Efforts have been made to use this..as a diagnostic test, by giving colloidal Au 198 intravenously and following this with scintiscan studies of the abdominal wall.
1977 Lancet 6 Aug. 261/2 Liver scintiscans with 99mTc sulphur colloid were performed in 52 patients.
2012 G. M. Doherty in J. B. Dimick et al. Clin. Scenarios Surg. lix. 288 (caption) Ultrasound and cytology have replaced the routine use of scintiscans to evaluate thyroid nodules.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
scintiscanv.
/ˈsɪntᵻskan/, U.S. /ˈsɪn(t)əˌskæn/ Medicine. rare.
transitive. To perform a scintiscan upon.
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1953 Mississippi Valley Med. Jrnl. 75 188 (title) Scintiscanning the entire body for radioiodine.
1981 Jrnl. Chromatogr. 215 195 125I-labelled antibody was administered to patients or rats with hepatoma, and radioactivity localized in the tumours was scintiscanned with a scintillation camera.
2005 Hellenic Jrnl. Nucl. Med. 8 19 72 had been scintiscanned for reasons irrelevant to spine disease.
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