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  • noun measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light through it and measuring the intensity of the transmitted light.

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  • noun The measurement of optical density by use of a densitometer
  • noun The measurement of body density

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  • noun measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light on it and measuring its transmission

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Examples

  • Osteoporosis thinning of the bones: Have a bone density test, also called a densitometry or DXA scan, beginning at age sixty-five to screen for osteoporosis.

    The Doctor is In MD Travis L. Stork 2010

  • Osteoporosis thinning of the bones: Have a bone density test, also called a densitometry or DXA scan, beginning at age sixty-five to screen for osteoporosis.

    The Doctor is In MD Travis L. Stork 2010

  • Osteoporosis thinning of the bones: Have a bone density test, also called a densitometry or DXA scan, beginning at age sixty-five to screen for osteoporosis.

    The Doctor is In MD Travis L. Stork 2010

  • Osteoporosis thinning of the bones: Have a bone density test, also called a densitometry or DXA scan, beginning at age sixty-five to screen for osteoporosis.

    The Doctor is In MD Travis L. Stork 2010

  • The Center is the onlypediatric bone center in the Delaware Valleyproviding both clinicalcare and bone densitometry (DXA) interpretation.

    GI services 2010

  • Simulated moving bed forms effects on real-time in-stream sediment concentration measurement with densitometry.

    Contributor: Ernest Tollner 2010

  • From what I understand, she did the densitometry, pulled out the data that "didn't fit with the rest" almost half of it apparently and photoshopped the bands to match the quantitative data so that she could show me a "representative blot".

    The D.F.F. digs her own grave Professor in Training 2009

  • Yup, while I learned a plethora of photographic techniques and the minutia of densitometry, he was busily working on his "style."

    What is style? 2006

  • Yup, while I learned a plethora of photographic techniques and the minutia of densitometry, he was busily working on his "style."

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • I also advise my patients who are taking corticosteroids on a long-term basis to see a specialist in metabolic bone disease for a test called bone densitometry every year to eighteen months; rarely, bone loss can occur.

    DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK Sanjiv Chopra 2001

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