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- noun opacity to X-rays or other radiation
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Examples
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Reply medical tubing: the solid colored line is for radio-opacity, so you can see the tube and its placement on an x-ray.
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The silhouette sign: An intra-thoracic radio-opacity, if in anatomic contact with a border of heart or aorta, will obscure that border.
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