Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

radiology  

Definition

  • Radiology is a branch of medicine whereby radiologists use medical imaging technologies to diagnose and sometimes treat particular diseases. Originally, it was largely connected with the use of X-ray machines and similar devices to photograph parts of people to assist doctors in diagnosis, but is not the radiology involving a wider range of machines and imaging devices. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Radiology]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/radiology

Download this concept: