autohistoradiography

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auto- +‎ historadiography

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autohistoradiography (countable and uncountable, plural autohistoradiographies)

  1. (medicine) A form of historadiography that uses radioisotopes instead of X-rays
    • 1925, New York Pathological Society, Proceedings of the New York Pathological Society:
      If we will examine the autohistoradiography from the inferior maxilla we will note, that instead of an even distribution, the radioactive []
    • 1968, C. J. Bostock, Pierre Dustin, N. Stebbing, Résumés Des Rapports Et Des Communications: Summaries of Reports and Communications. Editors: P. Dustin, N. Stebbing [and] C. J. Bostock:
      A study of the growth characteristics of these cells was made, using autohistoradiography, after pulse labelling of DNA, to determine the lengths of the different parts of the cell cycle.
    • 1970, Nicolae Simionescu, The histogenesis of thyroid cancer:
      In the diagnosis of thyroid neoplasms the modifications in the function of the malignant thyroid tissue may be a factor in the detection of alteration by means of iodine uptake or autohistoradiography and scintigram.

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