gastrography

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English

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Etymology

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From gastro- +‎ -graphy.

Noun

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gastrography (usually uncountable, plural gastrographies)

  1. Radiography of the stomach on a patient who has been given barium, then air.
    • 2003 April, Ikuo TakahashiYoshihiro KakejiYasunori EmiMasato SakuraiYusuke YonemuraYasue KimuraYoshihiko Maehara, “S-1 in the treatment of advanced and recurrent gastric cancer: current state and future prospects”, in Gastric Cancer, volume 6, number 1:
      Measurable lesions can be assessed by gastography with the patients in the same position for each procedure.
    • 2016, Nicola Ackerman, Victoria Aspinall, Aspinall's Complete Textbook of Veterinary Nursing, →ISBN, page 363:
      Tests may include double contrast gastography, positive contrast studies of the GI tract, barium enema, excretory urography or cystourethrograph.