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X-ray English

Meaning X-ray meaning

What does X-ray mean?
Definitions in simple English

X-ray Noun

— X-rays are a type of invisible light beyond ultra-violet. They pass through skin and tissue, but not bone, making it useful in medicine. X-rays are a type of radiation. — A photograph taken with X-rays When John broke his arm, he had an X-ray taken.

X-ray Verb

— To X-ray is to take a photograph of an X-ray The doctor X-rayed the patient's leg

X-ray Adjective

— Something that is X-ray is something to do with X-rays. The airport had an X-ray scanner.

x-ray

— verb examine by taking x-rays — verb take an x-ray of something or somebody The doctor x-rayed my chest

X-ray

— noun (= X ray) 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 roentgen ray roentgenogram X-ray photograph x-ray radiography radiograph X-ray picture X-radiation sciagraph sciagram radiographic radiogram X-ray machine

x-ray English » English

roentgen ray rontgen ray radiogram radiography X-ray roentgenogram roentgenize radiograph radiation treatment having to do with x-ray

Conjugation X-ray conjugation

How do you conjugate X-ray?

x-ray · verb

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.

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