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fluoroscope

American  
[floor-uh-skohp, flawr-, flohr-] / ˈflʊər əˌskoʊp, ˈflɔr-, ˈfloʊr- /

noun

  1. a tube or box fitted with a screen coated with a fluorescent substance, used for viewing objects, especially deep body structures, by means of x-ray or other radiation.

fluoroscope British  
/ ˌflʊərəˈskɒpɪk, ˈflʊərəˌskəʊp /

noun

  1. a device consisting of a fluorescent screen and an X-ray source that enables an X-ray image of an object, person, or part to be observed directly

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fluoroscope Scientific  
/ fl-rŏs′kə-pē /

  1. A radiologic instrument equipped with a fluorescent screen on which opaque internal structures can be viewed as moving shadow images formed by the differential transmission of x-rays through the body.

Other Word Forms

  • fluoroscopic adjective
  • fluoroscopically adverb

Etymology

Origin of fluoroscope

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900; fluoro- + -scope

Example Sentences

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A fluoroscope lets them watch the internal organs in action.

From Time Magazine Archive

Author Riess sketches the no less intricate devices which hold South America, Mexico, the Near East, before the Nazi fluoroscope.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the Lumicon looking at the fluoroscope screen, a very faint picture, drawn by weak and harmless X rays, is made bright enough to show up clearly in a fully lighted room.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was almost as grotesque as seeing the workings of your own stomach through a fluoroscope.

From Time Magazine Archive

I put him in front of the fluoroscope without his shirt.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

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