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…
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Nuclear medicine
the branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells
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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 substance that is opaque to x-rays; when administered it allows a radiologist to examine the organ or tissue it fills
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.a substance that is opaque to x-rays; when administered it allows a radiologist to examine the organ or tissue it fills
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
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Radiology.a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
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(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain poin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.nuclear transplantation of a patient's own cells to make an oocyte from which immune-compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.the expenditure in specific terms (per unit of production) of material resources (basic and auxiliary materials, fuel, energy, and dep…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.part of a patient's medical history in which questions are asked in an attempt to find out whether the patient has hereditary tendenci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.blood forming stem cells in the bone marrow; T cells and B cells arise from these stem cells
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, wheth…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public; "although her popular image was co…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, medicine, uses, radioactive, materials.a surgical procedure that places something in the human body; "the implantation of radioactive pellets in the prostate gland"
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