What does radiologist mean?
Word: Radiologist
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Radiologist means a doctor who reads X-rays and other scans of the inside of the body to find out what is wrong.
How do you spell radiologist?
Syllables: ra - di - ol - o - gist
Tricky part: Students put an a in place of the second o, or write j for the soft g.
Watch out for: radiolagist, radiolojist, radeologist
Memory tip: Picture an old radio in a white coat, holding an X-ray up to the light: that radio opens the word.
Radiologist in a sentence
Example 1: The radiologist studied the X-ray and told Kabir that his lungs were healthy.
Example 2: At her yearly check-up, a radiologist looked at the scan of her knee.
Example 3: My mother works as a radiologist at the district hospital.
Fun Fact
Radiology began almost as soon as Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays in 1895. Within months, doctors were using X-ray photographs to look at the bones inside the body.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) radiologist
b) surgen
c) physiotheropist
d) cardeologist
Show answer
a) radiologist. Surgeon has eon, physiotherapist has ther-a-pist, and cardiologist starts cardi.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
gidaolirots
a) radiation
b) radiologist
c) radiotherapy
d) radiograph
Show answer
b) radiologist. Spot the g and the s: radiation and radiograph have no s, and radiotherapy needs h, p and y.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The radiologest studied the scan carefully and told the family that the bone had healed well.
a) carefully
b) radiologest
c) healed
d) family
Show answer
b) radiologest. People who study a subject end in ist, as in biologist.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What would a radiologist look at to check a patient's lungs?
a) a CT scan of the chest
b) a list of medicines
c) a patient's diet chart
d) a sample of blood
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a) a CT scan of the chest
2. Radiology, the radiologist's subject, takes its name from ____.
a) the radius bone of the arm
b) radiation, such as X-rays
c) the radish plant
d) radio sets used for music
Show answer
b) radiation, such as X-rays
