Retrospectography

Quick meaning: Retrospectography is a noun meaning (art, photography, rare) The further appreciation of a photograph or picture which reveals insights into that image which were not recognized or appreciated at the time of original capture.

Meaning

(art, photography, rare) The further appreciation of a photograph or picture which reveals insights into that image which were not recognized or appreciated at the time of original capture.

More Meanings

1. (medicine, radiology, historical) A specific type of clinicoradiopathologic conference that was used in the early decades of radiography (circa 1900 until World War I), whereby practitioners would make a radiologic diagnosis and then systematically compare it with the subsequent clinical course and any surgery, intraoperative or postoperative radiography or fluoroscopy, and/or autopsy. This method helped advance radiology, given that it is inherently a field of discerning clinicoradiological and clinicoradiopathological correlations. It is no longer codified under this name, because it is no longer necessary in routine practice.

Example Sentences

They honed their diagnostic skills with a procedure they called "retrospectography." The process, which was used in the United States until about 1913, began with a doctor circulating X-rays of a patient without an accompanying diagnosis. […] The retrospectographers also built up a library of images illustrating difficult diagnoses, and they circulated radiographs to a range of specialists.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include retrospectoscope, radiographics, photofluorography, sciagraphy, roentgenography, historadiography.

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