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orthoroentgenography (iou) and gloxinia (iou)


orthoroentgenography (iou)



orthoroentgenography noun. M20.
[from ORTHO- + ROENTGENOGRAPHY.]
Medicine. A technique for producing radiographs showing the exact sizes of organs or bones by using a narrow beam of X-rays perpendicular to the plate or Film.
ortho'roentgenogram noun a radiograph produced by orthoroentgenography M20.
,orthoroentgeno'graphic adjective M20.

gloxinia (iou)



gloxinia noun. E19.
[mod. Latin (see below), from P. B. Gloxin, 18th-cent. German botanist.]
Any of various tropical American plants of or formerly included in the genus Gloxinia (family Gesneriaceae); esp. any of the forms or hybrids of the Brazilian Sinningia speciosa, with large velvety trumpet-shaped corollas, grown as hothouse plants.