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fluorodeoxyglucose

noun

fluorodeoxyglucose is a noun meaning “A fluorine analog of glucose that is used in positron emission tomography” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-O-R-O-D-E-O-X-Y-G-L-U-C-O-S-E, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fluorodeoxyglucose mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A fluorine analog of glucose that is used in positron emission tomography

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fluorodeoxyglucose?

Fluorodeoxyglucose appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you abbreviate fluorodeoxyglucose?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of fluorodeoxyglucose: FDG.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does fluorodeoxyglucose come from?

From fluoro- + deoxy + glucose.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).