RADIOGRAPH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radiograph mean? 

• RADIOGRAPH (noun)
  The noun RADIOGRAPH has 1 sense:

1. a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)

  Familiarity information: RADIOGRAPH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADIOGRAPH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

radiogram; radiograph; shadowgraph; skiagram; skiagraph

Hypernyms ("radiograph" is a kind of...):

exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "radiograph"):

autoradiograph (a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed)

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

 Context examples 

Pulmonary amyloidomas are rare and are often found incidentally as solitary or multiple calcified nodules and masses on chest radiographs in asymptomatic elderly patients.

(Amyloidoma, NCI Thesaurus)