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X-ray

noun

Electromagnetic radiation of short wavelength produced when high-speed electrons strike a solid target. Synonyms: roentgen ray, X-radiation, X ray.

A radiogram made by exposing photographic film to X rays; used in medical diagnosis. Synonyms: roentgenogram, X-ray photograph, X-ray picture, X ray.

verb

Examine by taking x-rays.

Take an x-ray of something or somebody.

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... have been cognizant of the new scientific discovery, one of the greatest of the nineteenth century triumphs, and most important to the medical cult—the discovery of the wonderful X-ray of light by the famous German ...

— Dainty's Cruel Rivals - The Fatal Birthday • Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller

... term for what we know as ultra-violet light. To him, blue was ultra-violet, and exceedingly dangerous to red-sensitive eyes. To him, our ultra-violet was a long X-ray, and was designated by a special term. And to him—the explosion of the atostor reservoirs was a ...

— The Ultimate Weapon • John Wood Campbell

... new-born enthusiasm. He subdivided all my symptoms. He dived again into my physical being. He consulted German authorities. I squirmed and lied and resisted all I could, but he said he owed me an eternal debt that could only be liquidated by an absolute cure. He wanted to tie me up and shoot me with an X-ray. He ordered me to wear white socks. He had a long, terrifying look at a drop of my blood. He jerked hairs out of my head to sample my nerve force. He said I was a baffling subject, but that he meant to make ...

— The Motormaniacs • Lloyd Osbourne

... of his spirit, and that to us nothing else concerning him is of any moment; which will show him to us illumined, as it were, from within, and which will count any other sort of life-history as vain and worthless. What we need is biography by X-ray, and not ...

— American Men of Action • Burton E. Stevenson

... and in his Christian Science walk and conversation, shall he hold up his head and tilt his hat over one ear and imagine himself safe because of these perfections? Why, in that very moment Mrs. Eddy will cast that spiritual X-ray of hers through ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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