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X-ray photograph - a radiogram made by exposing photographic film to X rays; used in medical diagnosis

roentgenogram, X-ray picture, X ray, X-ray

angiocardiogram - a series of X rays representing the action of the heart and its blood vessels after the injection of a radiopaque substance

angiogram - an X-ray representation of blood vessels made after the injection of a radiopaque substance; "angiograms are produced by angiography"

arteriogram - an X ray of an artery filled with a contrast medium

arthrogram - an X ray of a joint after the injection of a contrast medium

pneumoencephalogram, encephalogram - an X ray of the brain made by replacing spinal fluid with a gas (usually oxygen) to improve contrast

hysterosalpingogram - X ray of the uterus and Fallopian tubes; usually done in diagnosing infertility (to see if there any blockages)

mammogram - X-ray film of the soft tissue of the breast

myelogram - X-ray film of the spinal cord and spinal nerve roots and subarachnoid space

pyelogram - an X ray of the kidneys and ureters

radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagram, skiagraph, radiogram - a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)

phlebogram, venogram - an X ray of a vein injected with a radiopaque contrast medium

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The book has twenty six pictures by different artists and illustrators, one for every letter of the alphabet (except for X which has an X-ray photograph of a still life painting).

Blake, Quentin: Tell Me a Picture: Adventures in Looking at Art

Safe and highly accurate, a mammogram is an X-ray photograph of the breast.

Mammography can save lives

An X-ray photograph shows the pellet in the adult herring gull's left wing.

Seagull shot in town centre airgun attack

In Untitled (The Bar), 2007, Kantor works with an x-ray photograph of Edouard Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergere, 1882, riffing on traces of the French painter's frist ideas, hidden from view in the finished work--Kantor imagines that the girl once wore a tie, for example, instead of a demure ribbon around her neck.

Jordan Kantor; Ratio 3 gallery

The BT Test is designed to detect the presence of breast cancer at the molecular level unlike mammography, which only detects masses or gross changes in breast tissue via an X-ray photograph.

BIOMARKER BEGINS PILOT STUDY OF BREAST CANCER BLOOD TEST

Watson also noted that Wilkins, in highhanded fashion, had shown him Franklin's x-ray photograph 51, without Franklin's knowledge.

Double helix double cross? (Science, Technology & Environment)

It also marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the early death of the crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, whose now famous X-ray photograph (Number 51) persuaded Watson that he and Crick were within striking distance of their goal.

An embattled woman

Thus if the (200) crystal planes are randomly distributed, a circle is expected in the X-ray photograph. If all the (200) crystal planes are parallel to the z axis, but uniformly distributed around the z axis, with an equal proportion of planes to the left and to the right of the X-ray beam (Fig.

Characterization of anisotropic structure in poly(phenylene vinylene) films

An X-ray photograph also indicated the distortion of the bone structures including the intramedullary cavity (bone marrow) at the mid-region of the spine.

Pectoral spine size in Synodontis schall (Teleostei: Mochokidae) from Asa Lake, Ilorin, Nigeria

Hawkinson also generates a simulated X-ray photograph by rubbing pastel on a sheet of fabric wrapped around his body so that the bonier protrusions leave their marks; constructs a graph of the relative circumference of his body as measured at regular intervals from head to toe; and draws himself as if woven from lace.

Tim Hawkinson: Whitney Museum of American Art