radiolucent meaning

Adjective: radiolucent  `reydeeow'loosunt

1. Almost complete transparent to X-rays or other forms of radiation
   "radiolucent tissues"

Antonym: radiopaque

Encyclopedia: Radiolucent

[Medicine]
adj : partly or wholly permeable to radiation and esp. X rays —compare RADIOPAQUE

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1. the patient has a radiolucent lesion below the molar teeth in the right mandible
2. ureteroscopy on diagnosis and treatment of radiolucent ureteral calculi a report of 40 cases
3. Most human enteroliths are radiolucent on plain X-rays.
4. Cystine calculi are only faintly radiodense, while uric acid stones are usually entirely radiolucent.
5. It is a localized increase of hematopoietic bone marrow that creates a radiolucent radiographic defect.