angiogram

IPA: ˈændʒioʊgræm

(medicine) An X-ray image of the blood vessels gained after the injection of a radiopaque contrast medium.

Examples of "angiogram" in Sentences

This distribution pattern makes it harder for doctors analyzing a common test, called an angiogram, to detect the disease in women.
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: I had an angiogram, which is a catheter treatment through the heart, and they found absolutely nothing wrong.
And yesterday afternoon -- or yesterday morning -- I had an angiogram, which is a catheter treatment through the heart, and they found absolutely nothing wrong.
He recommended an angiogram, which is the standard next step, and which involves threading a little tube into your heart, pumping is some dye, and taking x-rays.
GUPTA: Before the 64-slice CT scanner, high risk heart patients would have to undergo a stress test or an angiogram, which is an x-ray of the blood vessels using a catheter in the vein.
GUPTA: Before the 64-Slice CT Scanner, high-risk heart patients would have to under go a stress test or an angiogram, which is an x - ray of the blood vessels using a catheter in the vein.
I needed an angiogram, which is not, as one might think, a message personally delivered by a singing cherub, but a procedure that started with a curiously smiling prep nurse shaving off the right half of my pubic hair, and then inserting a catheter into my femoral artery until it slid up into my chest.