Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A two-dimensional record of the distribution of a radioactive tracer in a tissue or organ, obtained by means of a scanning scintillation counter.
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- noun medicine An image of part of the body, obtained by measuring (by means of
scintillation or a similar method) theradiation emitted by a radioactivetracer .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[scinti(llation) + –gram.]
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From scinti(llation) + -gram.
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Examples
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Cardiac echogram was performed yearly and myocardial scintigram immediately before surgery; ACEIs were administered when left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) reached 55\%.
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