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Angiography vs Venography - What's the difference?

angiography | venography |

In medicine terms the difference between angiography and venography

is that angiography is a medical imaging technique in which an X-ray image is taken to visualize the inside of blood vessels and organs of the body, with particular interest in the arteries, veins and the heart chambers while venography is a diagnostic procedure in which an X-ray of the veins, a venogram, is taken after a special dye is injected into the bone marrow or veins.

angiography

Noun

(angiographies)
  • (medicine) A medical imaging technique in which an X-ray image is taken to visualize the inside of blood vessels and organs of the body, with particular interest in the arteries, veins and the heart chambers.
  • Synonyms

    * arteriography

    venography

    Noun

  • (medicine) A diagnostic procedure in which an X-ray of the veins, a venogram, is taken after a special dye is injected into the bone marrow or veins.
  • Synonyms

    * phlebography