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-graphy

A word ending that means the process of recording or making an image.

gruh-fee suffix

What it means

The ending for the act of taking a recording or picture. Mammography takes X-ray images of the breast, angiography images blood vessels using contrastKON-trastA dye or other substance given before an imaging test so body parts show up more clearly.Full entry dye, and electroencephalography records the brain's electrical activity. The picture or tracing itself ends in -gram, as in a mammogram, and the machine often ends in -graph.

Remember it

Graph is write: -graphy is the writing, -gram is what got written.

Related terms

contrast

A dye or other substance given before an imaging test so body parts show up more clearly.

-scopy

A word ending that means looking at or examining, usually with an instrument.

-metry

A word ending that means the process of measuring.

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