photofluorography

photofluorography
/foh'toh floo rog"reuh fee, -flaw-, -floh-/, n.
photography of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination, used in x-ray examination of the lungs of large groups of people. Also called fluorography.
[1940-45; PHOTO- + FLUORO- + -GRAPHY]

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