AUTORADIOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does autoradiography mean? 

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

1. producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTORADIOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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

radiography; skiagraphy (the process of making a radiograph; producing an image on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light)

 Context examples 

The image from a photographic or sensor plate used in a autoradiography process.

(Autoradiographic Image, NCI Thesaurus)

The distribution of radioactivity is visualized by autoradiography.

(DNase-I Footprinting, NCI Thesaurus)

RNA extracted from a sample was denatured and separated by slab gel electrophoresis, then blotted on to a nitrocellulose or nylon sheet and hybridized with labeled DNA or RNA that is complementary to the desired RNA, whose presence is subsequently indicated by autoradiography or other visualization techniques.

(Northern Blotting, NCI Thesaurus)

The Experimental Pathology Shared Service provides Cancer Center investigators with access to histotechnology and pathology services including but not limited to routine histologic evaluation, enzyme histochemistry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and autoradiography for diagnosis or characterization of tissue sections obtained from animal models.

(Experimental Pathology Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)