单词 | contrast medium |
释义 | contrast medium in British Englishnoun medicine a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography contrast medium in American Englishnoun Medicine a radiopaque substance injected into a part of the body, as the stomach or duodenum, to provide a contrasting background for the tissues in an x-ray or fluoroscopic examination Word origin [1950–55]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Common Market, bleep, hot line, point spread, speech recognitionExamples of 'contrast medium' in a sentence |
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