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fluoroscopic

American  
[floor-uh-skop-ik, flawr-, flohr-] / ˌflʊər əˈskɒp ɪk, ˌflɔr-, ˌfloʊr- /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the fluoroscope or fluoroscopy.


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Etymology

Origin of fluoroscopic

First recorded in 1895–1900; fluoroscope + -ic

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One document details the use of fluoroscopic scanning - using X-rays to show images of the inside of an object.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2025

“I would want it to be performed, if it were my injection, under fluoroscopic guidance,” said Dr. Ray M. Baker, president of the International Spine Intervention Society.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2012

Working in the same low natural key, Director Claude Autant Lara has produced an extraordinary fluoroscopic effect of life-in-depth.

From Time Magazine Archive

The multitudinous data of Ulysses vibrated like cold made-lightning between the cathodes of the most fluoroscopic symbolism and the most granitic naturalism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here, First Mortgage," he said as he turned from the control board and faced me, "here are the fluoroscopic screens.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 by Bates, Harry

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