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Scintigraphy
Meaning: Nuclear medicine imaging in which a gamma camera detects radiation emitted by an injected radioactive tracer.
In practice: Bone scintigraphy showed multiple hot spots consistent with metastatic prostate cancer.
Word parts
- -graphy means recording or imaging
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