roentgenoscopen.
/ˈrʌntjənəskəʊp/, /ˈrʌntɡənəskəʊp/, /ˈrəːntɡənəskəʊp/, U.S. /ˈrɛntɡənəˌskoʊp/, /ˈrɛntdʒənəˌskoʊp/ Medicine. Now historical.
= fluoroscope n. 2
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > radiography or radiology > [noun] > equipment used in
fluoroscope1893
photofluoroscope1896
skiascope1896
fluorimeter1898
stethendoscope1899
roentgenoscope1905
penetrometer1907
penetrameter1912
roentgenkymograph1914
stereofluoroscope1932
tomograph1935
kymograph1936
phototimer1942
photoscope1944
pantomograph1954
orthopantomograph1959
panograph1961
1905 Arch. Physiol. Therapy 2 289/1 The man who only occasionally, four or five times per month, uses the roentgenoscope should not consider himself free from the dangers incident to such work.
1917 A. C. Christie Man. X-ray Technic (ed. 2) 21 Using the röntgenoscope and some object such as a skeleton hand as an indicator.
1924 Amer. Jrnl. Roentgenol. 11 93/2 With most..types of the tilt-table roentgenoscope, it will be necessary to remove the screen ordinarily used.
1944 Sci. News Let. 12 Aug. 100/1 A physician, after examining a woman's stomach with a roentgenoscope (an X-ray apparatus for viewing the body on a screen), discovered that he had used a current of 60 milliamperes.
1994 L. J. Acierno Hist. Cardiol. xxiv. 501/1 They utilized the roentgenoscope which was made possible through the development of the phototube.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
roentgenoscopev.
/ˈrʌntjənəskəʊp/, /ˈrʌntɡənəskəʊp/, /ˈrəːntɡənəskəʊp/, U.S. /ˈrɛntɡənəˌskoʊp/, /ˈrɛntdʒənəˌskoʊp/ Medicine. rare.
transitive. To perform fluoroscopy upon.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > radiography or radiology > examine by radiography or radiology [verb (transitive)] > specific techniques
roentgenoscope1928
photofluorograph1945
1928 Lancet 29 Dec. 1348/1 Presumably the patient will be roentgenoscoped, since the report does not include the handy term ‘screened’.
1955 Amer. Jrnl. Roentgenol. 74 812/1 Anyone who has roentgenoscoped an infant's chest realizes that an infant can squeeze virtually all the macroscopic air out of his lungs..with crying.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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