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• Roentgen ray
  Roentgen ray

  noun

  x-ray.
• roentgen ray
  roentgen ray

  noun

  a former name for X-ray

Roentgen ray

American  

noun

1. (sometimes lowercase) x-ray.

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roentgen ray British  

noun

1. a former name for X-ray

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Etymology

Origin of Roentgen ray

First recorded in 1895–1900

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His thought is as luminous as a Roentgen ray.

From The Life Radiant by Whiting, Lilian

Even the Roentgen ray apparatus has quickly won its way, and psychotherapy is less expensive.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

But the women who can see clear through a man, like a Roentgen ray, do not invite soft demonstration.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women by Hubbard, Elbert

What miracles are wireless telegraphy, flying-machines, the Roentgen ray!

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

Galvanism was so called precisely as the Roentgen ray was christened at a later day—as a safe means of begging the question as to the nature of the phenomena involved.

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Williams, Henry Smith

Dr. Lawrence N. Smith of Boston reported to the doctors that, in 750 cases, he found that roentgen ray treatment reduced the severity of the paroxyms and shortened the course of the disease.

From Time Magazine Archive