Radiology is the branch of medicine that uses images of the inside of the body. A radiology department, send it to radiology, interventional radiology.
It covers X-rays, ultrasound, scans and the treatments done through them, and interventional radiology means operating through a needle guided by an image rather than by opening the patient. Radiologists read images and rarely meet the patient.
1nounradiologyThe branch of medicine that uses images of the inside of the body.
“The doctor sent me down to radiology for an X-ray of my wrist.”
radiology is a field.
Radio-, from Latin radius, a ray, plus -logy, a study.
From radio + logy.
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