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The Collaborative International Dictionary
radiograph

radiograph \ra"di*o*graph\ (r[=a]"d[i^]*[-o]*gr[a^]f), v. t. To make a radiograph of. -- ra`di*og"ra*pher (r[=a]`d[i^]*[o^]g"r[.a]*f[~e]r), n.

radiograph

radiograph \ra"di*o*graph\ (r[=a]"d[i^]*[-o]*gr[a^]f), n.

  1. An instrument for measuring and recording solar radiation.

  2. An image or picture produced upon a sensitive surface, as of a photographic or fluorescent plate, by some form of penetrating radiation other than light, as X-rays, beta rays, etc.; esp., a picture of the internal structure of opaque objects traversed by the rays; a skiagraph. When the picture is produced upon photographic film by X-rays, the picture is usually called an X-ray photo or X-ray. When an image is produced on photographic film by a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film, in a manner so as to record the spatial distribution of the radioactive substance, the resulting image is called an autoradiograph or {autoradiogram}.

Wiktionary
radiograph

n. 1 An image, often a photographic negative, produced by radiation other than normal light; especially an X-ray photograph. 2 An instrument for measuring and recording solar radiation. vb. To produce a radiograph image.

WordNet
radiograph

n. a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) [syn: radiogram, shadowgraph, skiagraph, skiagram]

Usage examples of "radiograph".

She pointed to the radiograph of the right thigh and indicated a long, diagonal fracture of the shaft of the femur.

When I arrived, the ME was arranging radiographs on two light boxes, each set consisting of twelve tiny films showing teeth in the upper and lower jaws.

In his office, Norma stared at the radiographs as if she were interested.

The only reminders she had were the daily dose of the inhaler and the two radiographs she had framed and mounted on her wall.

When I arrived, the ME was arranging radiographs on two light boxes, each set consisting of twelve tiny films showing teeth in the upper and lower jaws.

Hart was so badly burned, he could be identified only by striking similarities of tooth root and trabecular alveolar bone points in antemortem and postmortem radiographs.

Because, he sees, holding it at just this certain angle to the light, radiation from the original radium numerals has darkened the crystal focally, each number having in effect radiographed itself in the accidental plate of the crystal.