retrospectographyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• 韻: -ɒɡɹəfi

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retrospectography (uncountable)

1. (medicine, radiology, historical) A specific type of clinicoradiopathologic conference that was used in the early decades of radiography (circa 1900 until World War I), whereby practitioners would make a radiologic diagnosis and then systematically compare it with the subsequent clinical course and any surgery, intraoperative or postoperative radiography or fluoroscopy, and/or autopsy. This method helped advance radiology, given that it is inherently a field of discerning clinicoradiological and clinicoradiopathological correlations. It is no longer codified under this name, because it is no longer necessary in routine practice.
   • 1997, Holtzmann Kevles, Bettyann, Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century (Sloan Technology Series)‎^[1], Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 39:

     They honed their diagnostic skills with a procedure they called "retrospectography." The process, which was used in the United States until about 1913, began with a doctor circulating X-rays of a patient without an accompanying diagnosis. […] The retrospectographers also built up a library of images illustrating difficult diagnoses, and they circulated radiographs to a range of specialists.