"radiology" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: radio- + -logy Etymology templates: {{confix|en|radio|logy}} radio- + -logy Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} radiology (uncountable)
  1. (medicine) The specialty of medical imaging and its interpretation, originally and especially radiography but now including all imaging modalities, including ones that use no radiation (such as ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging). Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine, Radioactivity Translations (the specialty of medical imaging): ճառագայթաբանություն (čaṙagaytʿabanutʿyun) (Armenian), рентгеноло́гия (rentgenológija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), радиоло́гия (radiológija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), radiologia [feminine] (Catalan), 放射線學 (Chinese Mandarin), 放射线学 (fàngshèxiànxué) (Chinese Mandarin), 放射學 (Chinese Mandarin), 放射学 (fàngshèxué) (Chinese Mandarin), radiologie [feminine] (Czech), radiologi [common-gender] (Danish), radiologie [feminine] (Dutch), radiologia (Finnish), radiologie [feminine] (French), radioloxía [feminine] (Galician), Radiologie [feminine] (German), Röntgenologie [feminine] (German), geislalækningar [feminine, plural] (Icelandic), geislunarfræði [feminine] (Icelandic), raideolaíocht [feminine] (Irish), radiologia [feminine] (Italian), 放射線学 (hōshasengaku) (alt: ほうしゃせんがく) (Japanese), радиология (radiologiä) (Kazakh), 방사선학 (bangsaseonhak) (Korean), aghádaʼdeełdlaadígíí (Navajo), رادیولوژی (râdiyoloži) (Persian), radiologia [feminine] (Polish), radiologia [feminine] (Portuguese), радиоло́гия (radiológija) [feminine] (Russian), рентгеноло́гия (rentgenológija) [feminine] (Russian), radiología [feminine] (Spanish), paladiglapan (Tagalog), radyoloji (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-radiology-en-noun-gySz-wTI Disambiguation of Radioactivity: 51 49 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with radio-, English terms suffixed with -logy Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with radio-: 53 47 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -logy: 48 52 Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'the specialty of medical imaging': 93 7
  2. (medicine, obsolete) The use of radioactive substances in diagnosis and treatment (which today is the province of nuclear medicine). Tags: obsolete, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine, Radioactivity
    Sense id: en-radiology-en-noun-NJ7d~GqT Disambiguation of Radioactivity: 51 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with radio-, English terms suffixed with -logy Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with radio-: 53 47 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -logy: 48 52 Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: radiologist, radioscopy

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      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hōshasengaku",
      "sense": "the specialty of medical imaging",
      "word": "放射線学"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "radiologiä",
      "sense": "the specialty of medical imaging",
      "word": "радиология"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "bangsaseonhak",
      "sense": "the specialty of medical imaging",
      "word": "방사선학"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "the specialty of medical imaging",
      "word": "aghádaʼdeełdlaadígíí"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "râdiyoloži",
      "sense": "the specialty of medical imaging",
      "word": "رادیولوژی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the specialty of medical imaging",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "radiologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the specialty of medical imaging",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "radiologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "radiológija",
      "sense": "the specialty of medical imaging",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "радиоло́гия"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rentgenológija",
      "sense": "the specialty of medical imaging",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "рентгеноло́гия"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the specialty of medical imaging",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "radiología"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the specialty of medical imaging",
      "word": "paladiglapan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the specialty of medical imaging",
      "word": "radyoloji"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "radiology"
  ],
  "word": "radiology"
}

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