SKIAGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skiagraphy mean? 

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

1. the process of making a radiograph; producing an image on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKIAGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of making a radiograph; producing an image on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

radiography; skiagraphy

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

photography (the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces)

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

autoradiography (producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed)