radiology

English

Etymology

radio- + -logy

Noun

radiology (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) The use of radioactive substances in diagnosis and treatment.
  2. (medicine) The use of radiation (including ionizing radiation, especially X-rays) in diagnosis, usually through the formation of images.
  3. Radioscopy.

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