noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   chest photofluorography: a screening technique for tuberculosis using a miniature photograph of a roentgenographic fluoroscopy of the thorax rare, uncountable

Etymology

From Abreu + -graphy, eponymized after the inventor, Dr. Manuel Dias de Abreu, a Brazilian physician and pulmonologist.

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