a paper printout or photographic record indicating the intensity and distribution of radioactivity in tissues after administration of a radioactive tracer
Also called: gammagram
Word origin
[1950–55; scinti(llation) + -gram1]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Common Market, hot line, point spread, speech recognition, wiretap-gram is a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek, where it meant “somethingwritten,” “drawing” (epigram; diagram). On this model, -gram is used in the formation of compound words (oscillogram)
Examples of 'scintigram' in a sentence
scintigram
I-metaiodobenzyl guanidine scintigram revealed an increased uptake in the same area.
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