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radiology|reɪdɪˈɒlədʒɪ| [f. radio- 2 + -logy.] a. The medical use of X-rays, esp. in diagnosis; also extended to include the diagnostic use of other forms of radiation. †b. (See quot. 1905.) Cf. roentgenology s.v. roentgen-, roentgeno-.
1900Pop. Sci. Monthly May 110/1 An International Congress of Medical Electrology and Radiology has been connected with the International Congress system of the Paris Exposition, 1900. 1905A. M. Clerke Syst. Stars (ed. 2) vi. 80 The many suggestions of ‘radiology’ (as the new science of radioactivity might be designated) cannot be inconsiderately set aside. 1928Daily Express 6 Dec. 7/4 A specialist in radiology and electrical treatment. 1938S. C. Shanks et al. Text-bk. X-Ray Diagnosis I. p. vii, Diagnostic radiology is becoming an increasingly complex specialty, and it is difficult for one person to be equally expert in all its branches. 1959W. T. Moss Therapeutic Radiol. i. 23 The selective destruction of tissues forms the basis of therapeutic radiology. 1979Bartrum & Crow Case Stud. in Ultrasound p.v, Even more than in conventional radiology, the satisfactory application of ultrasound requires that the practitioner know the clinical history. 1980D. Sutton Textbk. Radiol. & Imaging p. vii/1 When the last edition of this book was published in 1975 Radio-isotope Scanning was well established and Ultrasound had already made a major impact on radiology... Nuclear Medicine has also steadily progressed. Imaging, as these new disciplines are usually called, is now a major force which has profoundly influenced the practice of radiology. Hence radiˈologist, a person employing ionizing radiation or radioactive material in any field, esp. a medically qualified practitioner of the diagnostic use of X-rays.
1906Arch. Roentgen Ray XI. 20/1 Hitherto the majority of radiologists have been accustomed to work without any measurement of the Roentgen light. 1926Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 284 This region of the intestinal tract is becoming an open book to the radiologist. 1955Sci. News Let. 11 June 372/2 Because the field of radiation itself is so well-defined, City of Hope radiologists and physicists found it possible to dispense with the customary heavy, lead-lined door. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 2 May 233/3 The radiologists in their helmets of lead, the scientists tracking down the atom, cast their strange shadows on the Pyramids. 1971Lancet 29 May 1124/1 A radiologist to the N.H.S. is medical and a radiographer non-medical. |