radiology

English

Etymology

radio- +‎ -logy

Noun

radiology (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The specialty of medical imaging and its interpretation, originally and especially radiography but now including all imaging modalities, including ones that use no radiation (such as ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging).

   Hyponym: radiography

2. (medicine, obsolete) The use of radioactive substances in diagnosis and treatment (which today is the province of nuclear medicine).

Related terms

• radiologist
• radioscopy

Translations

the specialty of medical imaging

• Armenian: ճառագայթաբանություն (čaṙagaytʻabanutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: рентгеноло́гия f (rentgenológija), радиоло́гия f (radiológija)
• Catalan: radiologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放射線學／放射线学 (fàngshèxiànxué), 放射學／放射学 (zh) (fàngshèxué)

• Czech: radiologie (cs) f
• Danish: radiologi c
• Dutch: radiologie (nl) f
• Finnish: radiologia (fi)
• French: radiologie (fr) f
• Galician: radioloxía (gl) f
• German: Radiologie (de) f, Röntgenologie f
• Icelandic: geislalækningar f pl, geislunarfræði f
• Irish: raideolaíocht f
• Italian: radiologia (it) f
• Japanese: 放射線学 (ほうしゃせんがく, hōshasengaku)
• Kazakh: радиология (radiologiä)
• Korean: 방사선학 (ko) (bangsaseonhak)
• Navajo: aghádaʼdeełdlaadígíí
• Persian: رادیولوژی (fa) (râdiyoloži)
• Polish: radiologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: radiologia (pt) f
• Russian: радиоло́гия (ru) f (radiológija), рентгеноло́гия (ru) f (rentgenológija)
• Spanish: radiología (es) f
• Tagalog: paladiglapan
• Turkish: radyoloji (tr)