a substance that is opaque to x-rays; when administered it allows a radiologist to examine the organ or tissue it fills
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a substance that is opaque to x-rays; when administered it allows a radiologist to examine the organ or tissue it fills
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The act of adding; application; accretion.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology.The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology.The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or me…
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology.The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full siz…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology.The reception of one part within another.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology.The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology.Alt. of Ontogeny
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology.The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual o…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology.An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans alo…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans alo…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans alo…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans alo…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans alo…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.examination of body structures using a fluoroscope
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() Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in read…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: substance, opaque, x-rays, administered, allows.The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: substance, opaque, x-rays, administered, allows.The science which treats of rays of light, especially of the actinic or chemical rays.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: substance, opaque, x-rays, administered, allows.A hearer or listener.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: substance, opaque, x-rays, administered, allows.A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: substance, opaque, x-rays, administered, allows.A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: substance, opaque, x-rays, administered, allows.A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: substance, opaque, x-rays, administered, allows.The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; devi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: substance, opaque, x-rays, administered, allows.A variety of glass, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: substance, opaque, x-rays, administered, allows.The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a serie…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: substance, opaque, x-rays, administered, allows.To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: substance, opaque, x-rays, administered, allows.of Examine
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