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Radiology - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Science of radiation as used in medicine.
Radiation - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Electromagnetic rays that travel as waves
of energy through space.
Radiograph - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Image produced on photosensitive film
by exposing film to x-rays and processing.
X-Radiation "X-Ray" - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----High energy ionizing
electromagnetic radiation.
Primary Radiation - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Made up of the x-rays that come
from the target of the X-Ray tube. AKA: Primary beam or useful beam.
, Scatter Radiation - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Form of radiation produced from
any substance being struck by primary radiation.
Seconday Radiation - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Form of radiation produced
from any substance being struck by primary radiation.
Dose - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Amount of energy absorbed by tissue.
Genetic Effects - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Radiation effects passed on to future
generations through genetic cells.
Somatic Effects (Somatic - "Greek" body illness) - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----
Effecs of radiation causeing illness and responsible for poor health.
Bitewing Radiograph (BWX) - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Radiographic film that
show the interproximal areas, crowns of the maxillary and mandibular teeth on
the same film.
Central Beam - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Central portion of the primary beam
of radiation.