Etymograph

English

fluoroscan

From fluoro- + scan.

Formed from fluoro- + scan

Latin fluō ‘to flow, stream, pour’

Latin fluor ‘flow’

English fluoro-

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 A fluoroscopic scan

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fluoroscan