autoradiograph love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An image recorded on a photographic film or plate produced by the radiation emitted from a specimen, such as a section of tissue, that has been treated or injected with a radioactively labeled isotope or that has absorbed or ingested such an isotope.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as autophotograph.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun same as autoradiogram.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun photography A photograph image produced by placing a film in contact with a specimen containing (or treated with) radioactive material; an autoradiogram

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed

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Examples

  • We had kind of been chasing potential activities and ... so I had actually done the experiment several days before but then it takes a few days for the autoradiograph to develop.

    Carol W. Greider - Interview 2009

  • Wellcome Images holds a photo of the original autoradiograph, discovered by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys in his lab at Leicester University, where he still works today.

    September 2009 2009

  • Wellcome Images holds a photo of the original autoradiograph, discovered by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys in his lab at Leicester University, where he still works today.

    25th anniversary of the DNA fingerprint 2009

  • Point is, I got the work done, and when I developed the autoradiograph and saw that pretty black smear right where it was supposed to be, I called Karen and cried over the phone.

    Hey, don't be a girlie-man! Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • Point is, I got the work done, and when I developed the autoradiograph and saw that pretty black smear right where it was supposed to be, I called Karen and cried over the phone.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • When the autoradiograph of the 1-dimensional SDS slab gel was developed, I noticed a very strange thing in the fertilized samples, which was a labelled band that went away, unlike all the others which, as expected, got stronger with time.

    Tim Hunt - Autobiography 2002

  • The photograph contains a region of the autoradiograph containing this sequence.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows bachinsky 2009

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