Taber's Medical Dictionary
Coolidge tube
(koo′lĭj)
[William D. Coolidge, U.S. physicist and chemist, 1873-1975]
A kind of hot-cathode tube that is so highly exhausted that the residual gas plays no part in the production of the cathode stream, and that is regulated by variable heating of the cathode filament.
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Coolidge Tube." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Taber's Online, www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/735549/all/Coolidge_tube.
Coolidge tube. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/735549/all/Coolidge_tube. Accessed March 23, 2023.
Coolidge tube. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/735549/all/Coolidge_tube
Coolidge Tube [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2023 March 23]. Available from: https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/735549/all/Coolidge_tube.
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