skiagraph
English edit
Noun edit
skiagraph (plural skiagraphs)
Verb edit
skiagraph (third-person singular simple present skiagraphs, present participle skiagraphing, simple past and past participle skiagraphed)
- Alternative form of sciagraph
- 1909, Herbert McIntosh, Practical handbook of medical electricity for students and practitioners:
- The target should, therefore, be adjusted so as to throw the rays as nearly as possible perpendicularly upon the parts to be skiagraphed.
- 1925, Charles Edmund Kells, The Dentist's Own Book:
- She came over to me and I skiagraphed the tooth (without charge — I should hope).
- 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 198:
- By the end of September, X-ray equipment had been installed and 16 patients had been 'skiagraphed'.