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Definitions: Radiography |
RadiographyNoun1. The process of making a radiograph; producing an image on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light. 2. Photography that uses other kinds of radiation than visible light. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Energy | The making of a shadow image on photographic film by the action of ionizing radiation. (references) |
Fine Arts | Art or the act of producing radiographs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Examination of any part of the body for diagnostic purposes by means of roentgen rays, recording the image on a sensitized surface (such as photographic film). (references) |
Medicine | Production of an image of an object on film, or other kind of sensitised plate, usually by means of X-radiation or gamma radiation, the contrast between different areas of the image being the result of differential interaction of the radiation in the object. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The making of X-ray photographic records. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. A nondestructive method of internal examination in which metal or other objects are exposed to a beam of X-ray or gamma radiation. Differences in thickness, density, or absorption caused by internal discontinuities are apparent in the shadow image either on a fluorescent screen or on a photographic film placed behind the objects b. The use of penetrating ionizing radiation to examine solid material. When the source of radiation is internal, such as an implanted radioactivetracer, the technique is known as autoradiography. (references) |
Physics | Technique for obtaining, recording, and optionally processing directly or after transfer, information contained in an X-ray pattern at an image receptor area. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
X-ray machines are the primary source of X-rays used in radiography.Radiograph Production
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Radiography."
Synonym: RadiographySynonym: skiagraphy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Representation | Noun: representation, representment; imitation; illustration, delineation, depictment; imagery, portraiture, iconography; design, designing; art, fine arts; painting; sculpture; engraving; photography, cinematography; radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy. |
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| Buzz; click; shot; capture; film; radiography; radiographic; radiologist. | |
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Health | Evaluation of these may involve atherosclerotic plaque measurement using safe, precise imaging techniques such as ultrasound, regional radioscintigraphy, magnetic resonance, and/or computer-enhanced radiography. (references) | |
Economic History | India | Major imports, in terms of volume and value, include highly specialized equipment such as body scanners, ultrasound scanners, specialized portable and non-portable X-ray machines, and implantable pacemakers, radiography and radiotherapy equipment. (references) |
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| "Radiography" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Radiography" is used about 49 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 49 | 48,677 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "radiography": body section radiography ♦ direct radiography ♦ electron radiography ♦ flash radiography ♦ instantaneous radiography ♦ panoramic radiography. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "radiography": x-radiography. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
radiography | 219 |
radiography school | 41 |
digital radiography | 33 |
computed radiography | 25 |
radiography program | 14 |
radiography salary | 11 |
dental radiography | 10 |
radiography job | 10 |
medical radiography | 9 |
radiography dental digital | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "radiography"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | radiografi (radiogram, radiograph), rëntgenografi (sciagraphy). (various references) | |
Arabic | تصوير إشعاعي ذاتي, التصوير بالأشعة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | радиотелеграфия (radiotelegraphy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 影. (various references) | |
Czech | radiografie. (various references) | |
Danish | radiografi (skiagraphy). (various references) | |
Dutch | radiografie (radiophotography, roentgenography, skiagraphy). (various references) | |
Finnish | radiografia (roentgenography), röntgenkuvaus (radiograph, roentgenogram, roentgenography, X-ray photography). (various references) | |
French | radiographie (radiograph, radiophotography, x ray). (various references) | |
German | Röntgenaufnahme (radiogram, radiograph, roentgenogram, roentgenography, x-ray, x-ray photograph, X-ray photography, x-ray plate), Radiographie (radiophotography, x-ray photography). (various references) | |
Greek | ακτινογραφία (radiogram, radiograph, radiophotography, roentgenogram, x ray, x-ray photography). (various references) | |
Hebrew | צלומי ר ט'ן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | röntgenográfia. (various references) | |
Italian | radiografia (radiogram, radiograph, radiophotography, roentgenography, x ray, x-ray photography). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | エックス線'影 (edge, edge ball, edging, eggnog, essay, essayist, essence, essential, extract, indecent, lewd, meal, radiographic). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | エックスせ"さつえい (radiographic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adiographyray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | radiografia (radiograph, radiophotography, roentgenography, shadowgraph, skiagraphy, x ray, X-ray, x-ray photography). (various references) | |
Romanian | radiografie (radiogram, radiograph, skiagraphy, x ray). (various references) | |
Russian | радиография. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | radiografija. (various references) | |
Spanish | radiografía (radiograph, radiophotography, roentgenogram, roentgenography, x ray, x ray examination, x-ray, x-ray photography). (various references) | |
Swedish | radiografi (roentgenography), röntgenologi. (various references) | |
Turkish | radyografi (rontgenogram, rontgenography), röntgen filmi (radiogram, radiograph, roentgenogram, rontgenogram, x ray), röntgen (radiological, roentgen, roentgenogram, rontgen, x ray). (various references) | |
Ukranian | рентгенографія, радіографія. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thuật chụp rơngen. (various references) | |
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Words ending with "radiography": autoradiography, microradiography, xeroradiography. (additional references) | |
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"Radiography" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mariography, paddiography. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "radiography" (pronounced rā'dēÄ"grufē) |
| 7 | -ē Ä" g r u f ē | bibliography, choreography, geography, hagiography, historiography, phytogeography. |
| 6 | -Ä" g r u f ē | astrophotography, autobiography, biography, chromatography, cinematography, crystallography, demography, iconography, lithography, mammography, oceanography, orthography, photography, polarography, pornography, topography, typography. |
| 5 | -g r u f ē | calligraphy, discography. |
| 4 | -r u f ē | apostrophe, atrophy, catastrophe, dystrophy. |
| 3 | -u f ē | philosophy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-h-i-o-p-r-r-y" | |
-1 letter: radiograph. | |
-3 letters: diagraph, porridgy. | |
-4 letters: airdrop, digraph, parador, podagra, prodigy. | |
-5 letters: aarrgh, adagio, apiary, gharri, gharry, hairdo, horary, horrid, hydria, pagoda, pardah, pariah, parody, piraya, priory, raphia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-h-i-o-p-r-r-y" | |
+1 letter: cardiography. | |
+4 letters: autoradiography, radioautography, radiotelegraphy, xeroradiography. | |
+5 letters: echocardiography, microradiography, radiographically. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101111 01100111 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a d i o g r a p h y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0064 0069 006F 0067 0072 0061 0070 0068 0079 |
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