fluoroscope
noun, verb
fluoroscope is a noun meaning “A device used to view continuous live X-ray images on a fluorescent screen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-O-R-O-S-C-O-P-E, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fluoroscope is fluoroscopes.
What does fluoroscope mean?
noun
- 1
archaicA device used to measure the fluorescence of a solution.
- 2
A device used to view continuous live X-ray images on a fluorescent screen.
verb
- 1
To examine with a fluoroscope.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fluoroscope
- fluoroscopes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- fluoroscoping participle, present
- fluoroscoped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluoroscope?
Fluoroscope appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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).
Fluoroscope in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense device used to view X-ray images:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | fluoroscopio |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fluoroscope come from?
From fluoro- + -scope, originally after German Fluorescop.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).