x ray English

Meaning x ray meaning

What does x ray mean?

X ray

— noun electromagnetic radiation of short wavelength produced when high-speed electrons strike a solid target

— noun (= X-ray) a radiogram made by exposing photographic film to X rays; used in medical diagnosis

Synonyms x ray synonyms

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X ray English » English

X-ray

roentgenogram

roentgen ray

X-ray picture

X-ray photograph

X-radiation

Topics x ray topics

What do people use x ray to talk about?

Person Healthy

Treat disease

• What equipment is used to treat illness?
  stethoscope blood pressure cuff scalpel catheter forceps needle syringe IV x-ray machine x-ray

Examples x ray examples

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Simple sentences

According to the X-ray, everything is all right.

Please take this chart to the X-ray Room on the third floor.

We have detected an abnormality on your x-ray.

Let's take an X-ray just in case.

The x-ray showed two broken fingers.

The doctors are looking at an x-ray.

We don't know yet if he really broke his leg. They'll do an X-ray of it.

I have to go and have an X-ray tomorrow.

Movie subtitles

Send him to X-ray and then in ER3.

The x-ray!

X-ray!

All right, that's enough of the x-ray treatment.

We're taking this man to the hospital for an x-ray.

And the pajamas in Dexter's apartment show nothing under the X-ray.

He's in the X-ray room.

News and current affairs

Sophisticated X-ray diagnostic techniques such as CT scans make it possible to detect many cancers at a treatable stage.

Since then, X-ray structural analysis of protein molecules has helped us to understand the chemistry of biological reactions.

He became director of the Royal Institution in London in 1923, where he attracted some outstanding young scientists interested in the X-ray field.

Among them were two recent Cambridge graduates, William Astbury and John Desmond Bernal, who became interested in the problem of protein structure--Astbury as a result of being asked by Bragg to provide X-ray diagrams of wool and silk.

Describing his unsuccessful attempts to obtain well-ordered X-ray diffraction patterns from crystals of the protein pepsin, he wondered whether Bernal could help obtain crystals of other proteins.

They repeated the X-ray experiment, but with the crystal surrounded by its mother-liquor and sealed in a glass capillary, obtaining patterns with large numbers of crystalline reflections.

A mammogram (x-ray of the breast) is administered to ostensibly healthy people to detect unsuspected disease.