Radiology
Nuclear Medicine
What is the medical specialty that studies the characteristics and uses of radioactive substances in the diagnosis of diseases.
Metallic powder is introduced into the large intestine and x-rays are taken.
What is a Barium Enema?
Sound waves and echoes are used to create an image.
What is ultrasonography?
Idiopathic
What is an Intravenous Cholangiogram?
Excision.
What is the removal of an organ by cutting?
Radionuclide.
What is any of the radioactive isotopes of cobalt, iodine, phosphorus, strontium and other elements used in nuclear medicine for treatment of tumors and cancers and for nuclear imaging of inner parts of the body; gives off high-energy particles or rays?
Tomography.
What is X-rays are taken to show an organ in depth?
IVP
What is an intravenous pyelogram?
Iatrogenic.
Pertaining to adverse conditions in a patient due to physician's treatment.
Method of treatment.
What is modality?
Radioisotope.
What is a radioactive isotope of an element; used for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes ; gives off high-energy particles or rays?
Patient is upright with his back to the x-ray machine and the film is to his chest.
What is a PA view?
Radiographic study that can detect cirrhosis or splenomegaly due to abscess or tumor.
What is a Liver/Spleen scan?
Dermatophytosis
What is a fungal infection of the hands and feet?
Gene from one organism is inserted into another organism.
What is recombinant DNA?
Substances that absorb most of the x-rays they are exposed to.
What are radiopaque substances?
Uses ionizing x-rays and a computer to produce a transverse image of the body organs.
What is a CT Scan?
X-Ray of the common bile duct after injecting dye into a vein. Used to diagnose stones in the common bile duct.
What is an Intravenous Cholangiogram?
Contralateral
What is pertaining to the opposite side?
Anastomosis.
Surgical, traumatic or pathological formation of a connection between two normally distinct structures.
Travel in straight lines; are invisible; cause the ionization of substances through which they pass; exposure of radiographic plate.
What are x-ray characteristics?
MRI
Vertical and cross section images produced using a magnetic field.
Wide resection of a tumor and removal of surrounding tissue.
What is exenteration?
Fungal infection of the hair.
What is trichomycosis?
Study of the interaction of drugs and subcellular entities such as enzymes and DNA.
What is molecular Pharmacology?