Medical Term:
filtration
Pronunciation: fil-trā′shŭn
Definition:
- The process of passing a liquid or gas through a filter.
- In radiology, the process of attenuating and hardening a beam of x- or gamma rays by interposing a filter3 between the radiation source and the object being irradiated; inherent filtration is that which is caused by the apparatus itself, such as the glass of an x-ray tube, without addition of a filter.
Synonym(s): percolation1
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