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angiogram

American  
[an-jee-uh-gram] / ˈæn dʒi əˌgræm /

noun

  • angiograms
    plural
  1. an x-ray produced by angiography.


angiogram British  
/ ˈændʒɪəʊˌɡræm /

noun

  1. an X-ray picture obtained by angiography

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

angiogram Scientific  
/ ănjē-ə-grăm′ /
  1. An x-ray of one or more blood vessels produced by angiography and used in diagnosing pathology in the cardiovascular system, such as arteriosclerosis.


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Etymology

Origin of angiogram

First recorded in 1930–35; angio- + -gram 1

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Vascular surgeon Samuel Chen then performed the angiogram, and blood flow was restored to the leg.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2025

An angiogram a few days later showed that it had been caused by a SCAD.

From BBC Mar. 10, 2024

He stayed hospitalized until he could undergo another angiogram one week later to make sure a different source of bleeding or any other “vascular abnormality” didn’t emerge, and none did, the doctor said.

From Washington Post Jun. 8, 2022

An angiogram indicated a minor stroke in the form of a small venous tear at the back of his head, Van Hollen said.

From Seattle Times May 23, 2022

The next day, Gora was transferred to Bellevue, the hospital Jean Miele had turned down, for an angiogram to assess her risk of a second heart attack.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

For example, California’s Stanford Medicine is combining imaging from MRIs, CT scans and angiograms with a new software system to create a three-dimensional model that physicians and patients can see and manipulate.

From Seattle Times Jan. 28, 2018

At work he performs hundreds of diagnostic cerebral angiograms, the same procedure he performed on the man in his 70s on that early morning in late June.

From Washington Post Jul. 7, 2017

So, he folds medical footage, including angiograms, into the animations.

From New York Times Nov. 15, 2016

The latter tale thrills, though the back stories on other cardiac modernities—bypass surgeries, angiograms, and electrocardiograms included—can drag.

From Slate Feb. 2, 2015

One patient had sixty-seven stents placed throughout his coronary arteries and bypass grafts, in the course of twenty-eight coronary angiograms over a ten-year period.

From Scientific American Jan. 27, 2012

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