English
scanography
Blend of scan + radiography or scanner + photography.
A blend of scan + radiography
Proto-Indo-European *skend- ‘to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan’
Proto-Italic *skandō
Latin scandō ‘to climb, rise, mount’
Middle English scanden ‘to scan verse’
Middle English scanne ‘to mark off verse to show metrical structure’
English scan
Today it means
noun The production of radiographs by scanning with X-rays through a moving, thin slit.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “scanography”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / scanography