radioactive iodine uptake test

1. 1.

   radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland

   SynonymsRAIU

   Broaderradioactive iodine test

Questions about radioactive iodine uptake test

What does radioactive iodine uptake test mean?

radioactive iodine uptake test means "radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland".

What is another word for radioactive iodine uptake test?

Close synonyms include RAIU. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is radioactive iodine uptake test a common word?

radioactive iodine uptake test is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.