abreugraphy
Meanings
noun
- chest photofluorography: a screening technique for tuberculosis using a miniature photograph of a roentgenographic fluoroscopy of the thorax
Word forms
Etymology
Calque of Portuguese abreugrafia, from Abreu + -graphy. Eponymized after the inventor, Manuel de Abreu, a Brazilian physician and pulmonologist.
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