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overcast(1) (iou) and Bone scintigraphy (health)


overcast(1) (iou)



overcast adjective. E17.
[pa. pple of OVERCAST verb.]
Covered with cloud; overshadowed, darkened, made dull or gloomy (lit. & fig.). E17.
W. C. Williams It was a cold, slightly overcast December day. R. Banks Week after week of zinc-gray overcast skies.
That has been overthrown or upset. Long rare. L17.
Sewn by overcasting; designating or pertaining to the stitch by which overcasting is done. M19.

Bone scintigraphy (health)


Bone scintigraphy is a sensitive and efficient method of measuring metabolic activity of the entire skeleton. Tc-99m labeled diphosphonates are well established in screening for most bony metastatic disease. Bone scanning makes up greater than 1/3 of the procedure volume in most nuclear medicine departments, a large proportion of which is screening for metastatic disease. The role of scintigraphy in evaluation of the patient with multiple myeloma is less well defined. Recent developments which necessitate reevaluation of the role of scintigraphy in multiple myeloma with respect to treatment.