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X-ray

noun

Electromagnetic radiation of short wavelength produced when high-speed electrons strike a solid target. Synonyms: roentgen ray, X-radiation, X ray.

A radiogram made by exposing photographic film to X rays; used in medical diagnosis. Synonyms: roentgenogram, X-ray photograph, X-ray picture, X ray.

verb

Examine by taking x-rays.

Take an x-ray of something or somebody.

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... know about luck, eh? Say, there was a time when I banked heavy on such things as four-leaf clovers, and the humpback touch, and dodgin' ladders, and keepin' my fingers crossed after gettin' an X-ray stare. The longer I watch the game, though, the less I think of the luck proposition as a chart for explainin' why some gets in on the ground floor, while others are dropped through ...

— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... minutely for signs of flaws, using a small portable X-ray fluoroscope to see the interior of the metal. Each joint seemed perfect. They retired, satisfied that everything was ready for the work ...

— The Black Star Passes • John W Campbell

... theories of matter, hoping to find in these illuminating points of view, he tells us, some analogy to his almost hopelessly complex problems of life and heredity. Even those medical men whose interest is entirely commercial appreciate the convenience of the X-ray and the importance of correctly interpreting the pathological effects of the rays of radio-activity and ultra-violet light. One finds a great geologist in collaboration with his distinguished colleague in physics, and from the latter comes a contribution on the rigidity of the ...

— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper

... was lucky. He'd been in the sick bay with a sprained ankle when the Rats hit, sitting in the X-ray room. The shot that had knocked out the port engine had knocked him unconscious, but the shielded walls of the X-ray room had saved him from the blast of radiation that had cut down the crew in the rear of the ship. He'd come to in time to see the Rat cruisers ...

— The Measure of a Man • Randall Garrett

... movement, but only with the unloading at the terminus. In my experience, the patient reports that he feels the fecal mass in the lower part of the rectum, but that he is unable to expel it. Examination by finger or by X-ray reveals a mass in the rectal pouch. If there is a piling up of freight further back on the line, it is only because the unloading process has been ...

— Outwitting Our Nerves - A Primer of Psychotherapy • Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury

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