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angiography

(an-jee-AH-gra-fee)

A procedure for imaging blood vessels using x-rays. Dye is injected into the blood vessels. The dye makes the vessels become visible in the x-ray pictures.

Angiography can be used to find cancer cells in blood vessels.

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