radiology

Meaning

  1. (uncountable) The specialty of medical imaging and its interpretation, originally and especially radiography but now including all imaging modalities, including ones that use no radiation (such as ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging).
  2. (obsolete, uncountable) The use of radioactive substances in diagnosis and treatment (which today is the province of nuclear medicine).

Synonyms

Translations

Radiologie

ακτινολογία

Röntgenologie

radiologie

Strahlenkunde

ışın bilimi

Strahlenforschung

Frequency

C2
Etymology

From radio- + -logy.

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