Taber's Medical Dictionary
cassette
(kă-set′ )
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1. A flat, lightproof box with an intensifying screen, for holding x-ray film. Digital radiography photostimulable phosphor (PSP) systems use cassettes to provide lightproof holders for the PSP screens while they are exposed and carried to a processing unit.
2. A case used for film or magnetic tape.
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Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Cassette." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Taber's Online, www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765221/all/screen_type_cassette.
Cassette. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765221/all/screen_type_cassette. Accessed May 3, 2026.
Cassette. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765221/all/screen_type_cassette
Cassette [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2026 May 03]. Available from: https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765221/all/screen_type_cassette.
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