abreugraphy

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What does abreugraphy mean?

chest photofluorography: a screening technique for tuberculosis using a miniature photograph of a roentgenographic fluoroscopy of the thorax

Where does abreugraphy come from?

Calque of Portuguese abreugrafia, from Abreu + -graphy. Eponymized after the inventor, Manuel de Abreu, a Brazilian physician and pulmonologist.

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