A medical imaging technique that combines cinematography with angiography to create moving pictures of blood vessels and the heart's chambers and valves.
From cine- (cinema) + angio- (vessel) + -graphy (process of recording). Developed in the 1950s as X-ray and film technology became sophisticated enough to capture real-time cardiac function.
This single word encapsulates one of medicine's greatest leaps forward—the moment doctors could watch, in real-time, exactly how a human heart was failing. It saved countless lives by showing precisely where blood flow problems occurred.
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