skiagraph

English

Noun

skiagraph (plural skiagraphs)

1. (physics) Alternative form of sciagraph

Verb

skiagraph (third-person singular simple present skiagraphs, present participle skiagraphing, simple past and past participle skiagraphed)

1. Alternative form of sciagraph
   • 1909, Herbert McIntosh, Practical handbook of medical electricity for students and practitioners:

     The target should, therefore, be adjusted so as to throw the rays as nearly as possible perpendicularly upon the parts to be skiagraphed.

   • 1925, Charles Edmund Kells, The Dentist's Own Book:

     She came over to me and I skiagraphed the tooth (without charge — I should hope).

   • 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 198:

     By the end of September, X-ray equipment had been installed and 16 patients had been 'skiagraphed'.