ANGIOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angiography mean? 

• ANGIOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun ANGIOGRAPHY has 1 sense:

1. roentgenographic examination of blood vessels after injection of a radiopaque contrast medium; produces an angiogram

  Familiarity information: ANGIOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGIOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Roentgenographic examination of blood vessels after injection of a radiopaque contrast medium; produces an angiogram

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("angiography" is a kind of...):

roentgenography; X-ray photography (radiography that uses X-rays to produce a roentgenogram)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "angiography"):

lymphangiography; lymphography (roentgenographic examination of lymph nodes and lymph vessels after injection of a radiopaque contrast medium; produces a lymphangiogram)

 Context examples 

The trisodium salt form of gadofosveset, an injectable, intravascular, amphiphilic gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) used with magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) imaging.

(Gadofosveset Trisodium, NCI Thesaurus)

An injectable, intravascular, amphiphilic gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) used with magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) imaging.

(Gadofosveset, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent emits an intense green fluorescence in the presence of alkaline solutions and therefore is used as a label when conjugated to antibodies or as a contrast agent for ophthalmic angiography.

(Fluorescein, NCI Thesaurus)

Acquisition or display of radiographic images using digital techniques; includes digital video fluoroscopy, scan-projection radiography (SPR), digital subtraction and angiography (DSA), digital intravenous angiography (DIVA), and computed tomography.

(Digital X-Ray, NCI Thesaurus)

The anhydrous form of gadofosveset, an injectable, intravascular, amphiphilic gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) used with magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) imaging.

(Gadofosveset Trisodium Anhydrous, NCI Thesaurus)

A sterile solution of a nontoxic tricarbocyanine dye with a peak spectral absorption at 790 nm, with application in determining cardiac output, hepatic function, liver blood flow, as well as ophthalmic angiography.

(Indocyanine Green Solution, NCI Thesaurus)

Magnetic resonance angiography may be used to check for aneurysms (a bulge in the blood vessel wall), blockages in the arteries, blood clots, and other blood vessel problems.

(Magnetic resonance angiography, NCI Dictionary)

The passage of a catheter into the left ventricle for the purposes of angiography, measurement of ventricular pressures, and/or oxygen saturation.

(Left Heart Catheterization, NCI Thesaurus)

A contrast agent containing an iodine-based dye used in many diagnostic imaging examinations, including computed tomography, angiography, and myelography.

(Iodinated Contrast Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called computed tomography angiography and CT angiography.

(CTA, NCI Dictionary)