X-RAY FILM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does X-ray film mean? 

• X-RAY FILM (noun)
  The noun X-RAY FILM has 1 sense:

1. photographic film used to make X-ray pictures

  Familiarity information: X-RAY FILM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• X-RAY FILM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Photographic film used to make X-ray pictures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("X-ray film" is a kind of...):

film; photographic film (photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "X-ray film"):

bitewing (a dental X-ray film that can be held in place by the teeth during radiography)

 Context examples 

The use of a computer, rather than x-ray film, to create a picture of the breast.

(Digital mammography, NCI Dictionary)

This makes it possible to distinguish, on X-ray film, body parts that contain diatrizoate meglumine from body parts that do not contain this agent and allows for visualization of different body structures.

(Diatrizoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

This makes it possible to distinguish on X-ray film, body parts that contain diatrizoate meglumine from body parts that do not contain this agent and allows for visualization of different body structures.

(Diatrizoate Meglumine, NCI Thesaurus)

Like other organic iodine compounds, this agent blocks x-rays and appears opaque on x-ray film thus, enhancing the visibility of body parts containing this agent.

(Iobitridol, NCI Thesaurus)

Like other organic iodine compounds, this agent blocks x-ray and appears opaque on x-ray film; thereby it enhances the visibility of the bile ducts and gallbladder during cholangiography and cholecystography procedures.

(Iodipamide Meglumine, NCI Thesaurus)

A technique that uses X-ray film to visualize gross anatomical structures that have been radioactively labeled.

(Autoradiography, Gross, NCI Thesaurus)

Like other organic iodine compounds, this agent blocks x-rays and appears opaque on x-ray film; thereby it enhances the visibility of the bile ducts and gallbladder during cholangiography and cholecystography procedures.

(Iodipamide, NCI Thesaurus)

Like other organic iodine compounds, ioxaglic acid blocks x-rays and appears opaque on x-ray film, thereby enhancing the visibility of structure and organs during angiography, arteriography, arthrography, cholangiography, urography, and computed tomography (CT) scanning procedures.

(Ioxaglic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Like other organic iodine compounds, iothalamic acid blocks x-ray and appears opaque on x-ray film, thereby enhancing the visibility of structure and organs during angiography, arteriography, arthrography, cholangiography, and computed tomography (CT) scanning procedures.

(Iothalamic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

The iodine moiety of diatrizoate meglumine is not penetrable by X-rays, therefore blocks the X-ray film exposure by radiation.

(Diatrizoate Meglumine, NCI Thesaurus)