cinefluoroscopy · noun — fluoroscopy that is recorded on a cine camera. It carries an Arena rating of 980, earned across 25 head-to-head judged battles.
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Why “cinefluoroscopy” is a great word
A diagnostic technique in which fluoroscopic images are recorded by a cine camera to produce a moving picture, born from the combining form 'cine-', short for 'cinematography' (motion picture recording), and 'fluoroscopy' (a real-time X-ray imaging technique). Unlike fluoroscopy, which is ephemeral observation, or cineradiography, a broader term for radiographic movies, cinefluoroscopy insists on the marriage of immediacy and permanence. It is the swallowing study revealing a liquid choreography, the captured flutter of a cardiac valve, or the stark spill of contrast through a fistula—a private cinema of the body’s hidden machinery, where the fleeting is made legible and the patient becomes a film saved from the oblivion of the live screen.
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Etymology
From cine- + fluoroscopy.
noun
- fluoroscopy that is recorded on a cine camera
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