STAT means now. Everything else means consult a specialist.
Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths short enough to penetrate your flesh and expose your bones on film, or the image produced by this process. It's how doctors confirm fractures without invasive surgery and how airport security sees your contraband. The hyphenated version is technically correct, though nobody actually writes it that way.
Electromagnetic radiation's sneaky way of peeking inside your body without opening you up like a can of beans. These short-wavelength photons pass through flesh like it's gossip, then get stopped cold by bone—giving doctors a grayscale peek show of your skeleton. Magic, but with ionizing radiation.
Abnormal dryness of the skin, eyes, or mucous membranes, often caused by reduced moisture or sebum production or as a side effect of certain medications or conditions.