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Medical terminology: "Wet read"

I was at my doctor's office earlier this week when one of his technicians told me that after conducting a certain test, the doctor would have the first, cursory, look at the results of the test. The technician called this first look a "wet read." Can someone tell me the origin of this phrase?
  

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[nq:1]I was at my doctor's office earlier this week when one of his technicians told me that after conducting a ... the test. [/nq] I'd always assumed it meant the X ray had been developed but was not yet dry.

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  • [nq:1]I was at my doctor's office earlier this week when one of his technicians told me that after conducting a ...
  • the test.
  • [/nq] I'd always assumed it meant the X ray had been developed but was not yet dry.
  • These days, what with computers and all, it's probably a carryover phrase, much like to dial a phone.
  • I seem to recall a previous discussion about this, but is there a word for vestigial vocabulary?
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[nq:1]I was at my doctor's office earlier this week when one of his technicians told me that after conducting a ... the test. The technician called this first look a "wet read." Can someone tell me the origin of this phrase?[/nq]
I'd always assumed it meant the X ray had been developed but was not yet dry. These days, what with computers and all, it's probably a carryover phrase, much like to
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The inimitable (Email Removed) (Cotopaxis) stated one day
[nq:1]I was at my doctor's office earlier this week when one of his technicians told me that after conducting a ... the test. The technician called this first look a "wet read." Can someone tell me the origin of this phrase?[/nq]
If you search Google.com for "wet read" and "wet readings", you will find lots of relevant hits, includi
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[nq:1]If you search Google.com for "wet read" and "wet readings", you will find lots of relevant hits, including the medical ones you are looking for.[/nq]
So was I right?
Franke, any interest in sending a postcard to a nine-year-old girl to help her class with it's geography project? If you're willing to (or anyone else is), drop(1) me an email.
(1) Another one of those vestigial phra
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The inimitable Dena Jo stated one day
[nq:2]If you search Google.com for "wet read" and "wet readings", you will find lots of relevant hits, including the medical ones you are looking for.[/nq]
[nq:1]So was I right?[/nq]
You're right about what it means in medical terminology about X-ray film reading, but I have know idea what the origin of the term is. I just did a Google search and
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[nq:2]If you search Google.com for "wet read" and "wet readings", you will find lots of relevant hits, including the medical ones you are looking for.[/nq]
Speaking of medical matters, any suggestion on how to work 'grume' into polite conversation? Maybe a joke about a grume's-man?
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[nq:2]Franke, any interest in sending a postcard to a nine-year-old girl to help her class with it's geography project? If you're willing[/nq]
^^
[nq:1]Oy![/nq]
The word "class" showed up underlined on my screen, and it took me a minute to figure out what was wrong...
[nq:1]I have know idea[/nq]
Oy!

Dena Jo
(Email: Replace TPUBGTH with denajo2)
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The inimitable Dena Jo stated one day

^^

Double oy! Skitt's Law is sneaky, by ***. It makes you make errors just to keep you humble.
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