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radioscan

noun

Etymology

From radio- + scan.

  1. derived from *skend-✻
  2. inherited from scanne — “to mark off verse to show metrical structure”
  3. prefixed as radioscan — “radio + scan”

Definitions

  1. A scan for the presence of radioactive material in a sample

    A scan for the presence of radioactive material in a sample; especially for a radioactive tracer in an organ

  2. To perform a scan of this kind.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for radioscan. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA