fluoroscope
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While a surgeon "reduces" the fracture, his assistant watches the bone through a fluoroscope to make sure the ends are fitted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Primarily intended for brightening the faint images on X-ray fluoroscope screens, it is based on the image-orthicon tube used in television cameras.
From Time Magazine Archive
Author Riess sketches the no less intricate devices which hold South America, Mexico, the Near East, before the Nazi fluoroscope.
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With the Lumicon looking at the fluoroscope screen, a very faint picture, drawn by weak and harmless X rays, is made bright enough to show up clearly in a fully lighted room.
From Time Magazine Archive
I put him in front of the fluoroscope without his shirt.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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