gastrography

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noun

Radiography of the stomach on a patient who has been given barium, then air.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

noungastrography (usually uncountable, plural gastrographies)

plural gastrographies

  1. uncountableusuallyRadiography of the stomach on a patient who has been given barium, then air.

    Measurable lesions can be assessed by gastography with the patients in the same position for each procedure.

    2003 April, Ikuo TakahashiYoshihiro KakejiYasunori EmiMasato SakuraiYusuke YonemuraYasue KimuraYoshihiko Maehara, “S-1 in the treatment of advanced and recurrent gastric cancer: current state and future prospects”, in Gastric Cancer, volume 6, number 1
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    Tests may include double contrast gastography, positive contrast studies of the GI tract, barium enema, excretory urography or cystourethrograph.

    2016, Nicola Ackerman, Victoria Aspinall, Aspinall's Complete Textbook of Veterinary Nursing, →ISBN, page 363

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