fluoroscopic

American  

[floor-uh-skop-ik, flawr-, flohr-] / ˌflʊər əˈskɒp ɪk, ˌflɔr-, ˌfloʊr- /

adjective

1. of or relating to the fluoroscope or fluoroscopy.

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Other Word Forms

• fluoroscopically adverb

Etymology

Origin of fluoroscopic

First recorded in 1895–1900; fluoroscope + -ic

Example Sentences

One document details the use of fluoroscopic scanning - using X-rays to show images of the inside of an object.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2025

“I would want it to be performed, if it were my injection, under fluoroscopic guidance,” said Dr. Ray M. Baker, president of the International Spine Intervention Society.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2012

But there are two difficulties: a doctor's eyes function poorly in the dim light needed to make the fluoroscopic image visible; the X-ray intensities now used can't be stepped up without endangering the patient.

From Time Magazine Archive

Working in the same low natural key, Director Claude Autant Lara has produced an extraordinary fluoroscopic effect of life-in-depth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fluoroscopic examination will often discover the best angle from which to make a plate; but foreign bodies casting a very faint shadow on a plate may be totally invisible on the fluoroscopic screen.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier