Two years’ experience of war radiography in a base hospital.
While radiography is of inestimable value in the diagnosis of many fractures and other injuries, particularly in the vicinity of joints, the student is warned against relying too implicitly on the evidence it seems to afford.
Many of the pioneers of radiography have fallen victims to this complaint, but greater precautions are now taken to protect the operators from the X-rays.
In the early days of radiography the X-rays in medical work were confined almost solely to the detection of fractured or injured bones, and abnormal bone growth.
If the natural ostium sphenoidale be not visible it would be risky to make an artificial opening without first determining byradiography the presence and size of the sinus.
An extensive acquaintance with the surgical anatomy of the region is required to prepare the surgeon for encountering these and other irregularities, and the systematic use of radiography will prevent him from being taken by surprise.
If the Röntgen rays have shown that the frontal sinus does not extend above the level of the bridge, or if radiography be not available and there is any uncertainty as to the extent of the cavity, this lower opening should be made first.
In the early days of X-radiography an exposure of some minutes was necessary to secure a negative, but now, thanks to the improvements in the tubes, a few seconds is often sufficient.
In X-radiography a specially constructed electrically-lit glass tube takes the place of the lamp, and for the wall is substituted a sensitised plate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "radiography" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
