angiogram

American  

[an-jee-uh-gram] / ˈæn dʒi əˌgræm /

noun

• angiograms
  plural

1. an x-ray produced by angiography.

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angiogram British  

/ ˈændʒɪəʊˌɡræm /

noun

1. an X-ray picture obtained by angiography

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angiogram Scientific  

/ ăn′jē-ə-grăm′ /

1. An x-ray of one or more blood vessels produced by angiography and used in diagnosing pathology in the cardiovascular system, such as arteriosclerosis.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• angiograms
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of angiogram

First recorded in 1930–35; angio- + -gram ¹

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Example Sentences

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angiogram angiograms

For instance, the NHS has not invested in CT coronary angiogram machines, which allow clinicians to scan hearts to check if they are diseased.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

Fearing that parts of the leg were dead, the suit says, Wang also ordered an emergency angiogram.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025

An angiogram indicated a minor stroke in the form of a small venous tear at the back of his head, Van Hollen said.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2022

An angiogram showed that he had had a “minor stroke in the form of a small venous tear” at the back of his head.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2022

But Gora, who was fifty-nine at the time, came down with a fever at Bellevue, so the angiogram had to be canceled.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

For example, California’s Stanford Medicine is combining imaging from MRIs, CT scans and angiograms with a new software system to create a three-dimensional model that physicians and patients can see and manipulate.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2018

At work he performs hundreds of diagnostic cerebral angiograms, the same procedure he performed on the man in his 70s on that early morning in late June.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2017

So, he folds medical footage, including angiograms, into the animations.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2016

The latter tale thrills, though the back stories on other cardiac modernities—bypass surgeries, angiograms, and electrocardiograms included—can drag.

From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2015

One patient had sixty-seven stents placed throughout his coronary arteries and bypass grafts, in the course of twenty-eight coronary angiograms over a ten-year period.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 27, 2012

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