radiology

English

Etymology

From radio- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɹeɪdiˈɒlədʒi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɹeɪdiˈɑlədʒi/
• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

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).

Derived terms

• cardioradiology
• electroradiology
• neuroradiology
• palaeoradiology
• paleoradiology
• psychoradiology
• radiologic
• radiological
• teleradiology
• uroradiology

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
• Hindi: विकिरण विज्ञान m (vikiraṇ vijñān)
• 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)
• Latin: radiologia f
• 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
• Swahili: radiolojia (sw)
• Tagalog: paladiglapan
• Turkish: radyoloji (tr)