radiology

English

Etymology

radio- +‎ -logy

Noun

radiology (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The use of radioactive substances in diagnosis and treatment.
2. (medicine) The use of radiation (including ionizing radiation, especially X-rays) in diagnosis, usually through the formation of images.
3. Radioscopy.

Related terms

• radiologist

Translations

the use of radiation in diagnosis

• Armenian: ճառագայթաբանություն (čaṙagaytʻabanutʻyun)
• Catalan: radiologia f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: radiologie (cs) f
• Dutch: radiologie (nl) f
• Finnish: radiologia (fi)
• French: radiologie (fr) f
• Galician: radioloxía f
• German: Radiologie (de) f, Röntgenologie f
• Icelandic: geislalækningar f pl, geislunarfræði f
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• Irish: raideolaíocht f
• Italian: radiologia (it) f
• Japanese: 放射線学 (ほうしゃせんがく, hōshasengaku)
• Navajo: aghádaʼdeełdlaadígíí
• 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)