Department of Radiology. Interventional. Interventional Radiology is a specialty whereby minimally invasive procedures are performed with the use of image guidance (CT scans, ultrasounds, and x-rays).
T RUNCATION & W ILDCARD O PERATORS revised 1/08gs Truncation Use the truncation symbols to create searches where you want to retrieve all variants of a word stem. The most commonly used truncation symbol is the asterisk (*).For example, a search for educat* will retrieve: educate, educating, education, educational, educator, educators, etc. Wildcards A wildcard symbol is used within a word to provide for all possible spellings or variations inside a word or word stem. RUNCATION & W ILDCARD O PERATORS revised 1/08gs Truncation Use the truncation symbols to create searches where you want to retrieve all variants of a word stem. The most commonly used truncation symbol is the asterisk (*).
1 Clipping: Also known as truncation or shortening, clipping is the word formation process which consists in the reduction of a word to one of its parts, e.g. fax (facsimile), flu (influenza) and bot (robot). 2  Clipped words may not retain their original meaning. blend is a word formed by joining parts of two or more older words. An example is smog, which comes from smoke and fog, or brunch, which comes from 'breakfast' and 'lunch'. Sub-categories of blending are: