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  • adjective Not allowing the passage of x-rays or other radiation.

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  • adjective impenetrable to X-rays and other radiation

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  • adjective not transparent to X-rays or other forms of radiation

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Examples

  • Gastric emptying via emesis or lavage should be performed in patients who have ingested greater than 40-60 mg./kg. of elemental iron or an unknown amount. 1 Activated charcoal is not useful, unless there are co-ingestants, since it does not bind metals such as iron. 1 Iron tablets are radiopaque, therefore, an abdominal radiograph should be performed to determine if there is evidence of iron tablets in the stomach or small bowel.

    Iron Poisoning 2010

  • It is important to remember that multivitamins with iron contain a smaller quantity of elemental iron and are therefore, less radiopaque than preparations such as ferrous sulfate and that partially dissolved tablets will not be as radiopaque as undissolved tablets.

    Iron Poisoning 2010

  • HSG requires the insertion of a cannula through the cervix into the uterus through which radiopaque contrast medium is injected and followed by radiographs or fluoroscopy in order to determine that the fallopian tubes are open.

    Reproductive Technology, New (NRT). leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • Basic idea: inject something radiopaque dark on X-rays into the spinal canal, tip the patient upside down to let the material get into the cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain, and shoot some X-rays.

    Archive 2005-04-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • Basic idea: inject something radiopaque dark on X-rays into the spinal canal, tip the patient upside down to let the material get into the cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain, and shoot some X-rays.

    Doped exorcist philosophize the raw(a) vaudevillian with anisometric Ceratopogon Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • Heliomolar is more radiopaque than enamel and dentin, and shows up brighter on X-rays.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • Heliomolar is more radiopaque than enamel and dentin, and shows up brighter on X-rays.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • The spot of dullness on the second upper baby molar glowed white and radiopaque.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • Heliomolar is more radiopaque than enamel and dentin, and shows up brighter on X-rays.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • The spot of dullness on the second upper baby molar glowed white and radiopaque.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

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