radiopaque
Americanadjective
adjective
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- radiopacity noun
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If a woman has certain radiopaque dyes injected for gall-bladder X rays, for example, a baby that she bears several years later may have an abnormal level of iodine in the blood.
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He is impatiently awaiting delivery of an X-ray machine which will take pictures at 1/500 sec. and, with radiopaque dyes, will show precisely where and how extensively a coronary artery is blocked�or unblocked.
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A second diagnostic advance comes from use of radiopaque dyes, which are injected into arteries leading to the brain: X rays help to locate obstructions to circulation resulting from thromboses and especially aneurysms.
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A radiopaque substance was injected into the coronary vessels, and X-ray pictures were taken, revealing a blood clot.
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To guard against clots, he flushed out the whole artery-vein system with a special saline solution combined with antibiotics, an anticoagulant and a radiopaque dye.
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