PYELOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pyelography mean? 

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

1. roentgenography of the kidney and ureters (usually after injection with a radiopaque dye)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PYELOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Roentgenography of the kidney and ureters (usually after injection with a radiopaque dye)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pyelography" 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 "pyelography"):

intravenous pyelography; IVP (performing pyelography with intravenous injection of a contrast medium)

 Context examples 

Intravenous pyelography is usually done to look for a block in the flow of urine.

(Intravenous pyelography, NCI Dictionary)

Also called intravenous pyelography.

(IVP, NCI Dictionary)