Definition: 1. Examine by taking x-rays. 2. Take an x-ray of something or somebody.
'x-ray' example sentence:
The increase in brightness of the x-ray sources over the same period has occurred far faster.
You should have an X-ray.
We'll take an X-ray of your arm.
The stethoscope is older than the x-ray, the ballpoint pen, Popular Science and pretty much everything else in your doctor's office.
We need to give you an X-ray.
When World War I began, she left Sevigne University to help her mother, who was using X-ray facilities to help save the lives of wounded soldiers.
You need an X-ray, Andy.
I need to get an X-ray.
X-ray examination of thin slabs of rock sometimes reveals the ghostly outlines of tentacles, digestive tracts, and visual organs of a variety of marine creatures.
How do I get to the X-ray room?
Do I need an X-ray, doctor?
Irene continued this work by developing X-ray facilities for military hospitals in France and Belgium.
The benefit of an x-ray far outweighs the minutely increased risk of cancer.
It will only register on sophisticated X-ray equipment.
Passengers must pass through metal detectors, and their carry-on bags are put through X-ray machines.
They can't tell till they X-ray.
Let's take an X-ray.
The airline had not been searching unaccompanied baggage by hand, but only screening it on X-ray machines.
I had to go for an X-ray.
The hospital staff held off taking Rosenbaum in for an X-ray.
We put our bags into the X-ray machine for examination.
The X-ray showed there was no break in his leg.
She was advised to have an abdominal X-ray.
I suggested that he rest, and sent him for an X-ray.
He climbed two floors to the X-ray room.
He had two X-ray burns on the back.
The element was found using X-ray spectroscopy.
A clerk had slipped the wrong tab on Tony's X-ray.
The x-ray detectors feed the input into computer programs.
You might still want to go for an X-ray, however, just to be on the safe side.
