fluoroscope

American  

[floor-uh-skohp, flawr-, flohr-] / ˈflʊər əˌskoʊp, ˈflɔr-, ˈfloʊr- /

noun

1. a tube or box fitted with a screen coated with a fluorescent substance, used for viewing objects, especially deep body structures, by means of x-ray or other radiation.

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fluoroscope British  

/ ˌflʊərəˈskɒpɪk, ˈflʊərəˌskəʊp /

noun

1. a device consisting of a fluorescent screen and an X-ray source that enables an X-ray image of an object, person, or part to be observed directly

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fluoroscope Scientific  

/ fl-rŏs′kə-pē /

1. A radiologic instrument equipped with a fluorescent screen on which opaque internal structures can be viewed as moving shadow images formed by the differential transmission of x-rays through the body.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• fluoroscopic
  adjective
• fluoroscopically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of fluoroscope

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900; fluoro- + -scope

Example Sentences

They can put their apparatus to work watching a fluoroscope in a darkened room; it can see in light ten times too dim for human eyes.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

It was almost as grotesque as seeing the workings of your own stomach through a fluoroscope.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

I put him in front of the fluoroscope without his shirt.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

Related Words

• Roentgen rays
• Röntgen rays
• radioactivity