What does radiographer mean?
Word: Radiographer
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Radiographer means a trained health worker who uses X-ray machines and scanners to take pictures of the inside of the body.
How do you spell radiographer?
Syllables: ra - di - og - ra - pher
Tricky part: The f sound near the end is spelt ph, not f or ff. Pupils who write the word the way it sounds end up with radiografer.
Watch out for: radiografer, radiograffer
Memory tip: Graph, photograph and this job all borrow the same Greek ph for their f sound, so no plain f belongs in it.
Radiographer in a sentence
Example 1: Ella wants to be a radiographer because she enjoys both science and looking after people.
Example 2: During careers week, a radiographer explained to our class how a scanner builds up a picture slice by slice.
Example 3: The radiographer checked the image on her screen and said it was clear enough for the doctor.
Fun Fact
Radiographers around the world mark World Radiography Day on 8 November, the date in 1895 when the German scientist Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
r_d_ographer
a) e, i
b) a, i
c) a, e
d) e, e
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b) a, i. The word opens with the same four letters as the radio in your kitchen.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The radiographor smiled and asked Kabir to hold his breath for just two seconds.
a) seconds
b) radiographor
c) smiled
d) breath
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b) radiographor. Like photographer and geographer, this job title ends in er, not or.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
apioraerrghd
a) choreography
b) photographic
c) geographical
d) radiographer
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d) radiographer. Count the r's: the jumble has three, and only one of the four words does too.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) radiographer
b) dermatoligist
c) pharmacyst
d) optisian
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a) radiographer. The other three slip at one spot each: dermatologist needs o before the g, optician is spelt with cian, and pharmacist takes i before the st.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A radiographer and a photographer are alike because both of them ____.
a) teach music lessons
b) repair engines
c) produce images
d) write reports on books
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c) produce images
2. Just before taking an X-ray of a child's arm, a radiographer will ask the child to ____.
a) drink a glass of milk
b) run round the room once
c) keep the arm very still
d) write down a full name
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c) keep the arm very still
