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noun

radiograph n.

An instrument for measuring and recording solar radiation.

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.

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Etymology of 'Radiograph'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Radiograph" Quotes from Famous Books

... largely used in the newspapers, and even in medical journals. It has only the merit of clearness as to its meaning to English-speaking persons. It is, however, an abominable linguistic crime, being an unnatural compound of English and Greek. "Radiograph" and its derivatives are equally objectionable as compounds of Latin and Greek. The Greek word for shadow is "skia," and the proper rendering, therefore, of shadowgraph is "skiagraph," ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various

... of distress, and filling the ether with her inarticulate calls for help, which quavered into every radiograph station within a radius of hundreds ...

— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss

Words linked to "Radiograph" : X-ray picture, photograph, roentgenogram, x-ray, photo, X ray, autoradiograph, shadowgraph, exposure, pic, X-ray photograph, skiagram, radiogram, picture, skiagraph