fluoresce
verb/fləˈɹɛs/ · /flʊəˈɹɛs/
Etymology Back-formation from fluorescence.
1
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics To emit electromagnetic radiation, especially visible light, when absorbing radiation of some other wavelength.
- The blinding light did not hurt, it filled him, he glowed, all his veins fluoresced, each one alive with new growth.1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 98:
2
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics To cause to fluoresce; to make fluorescent.
- During right robotic thymectomy, fluorescence imaging facilitates identification of the contralateral phrenic nerve by fluorescing the pericardiophrenic vessels.2012, Oliver J. Wagner, Brian E. Louie, Eric Vallières, Ralph W. Aye, Alexander S. Farivar, “Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging Can Help Identify the Contralateral Phrenic Nerve During Robotic Thymectomy”, in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, volume 94, →DOI, page 622:
3
Of colours, to be very bright; to be so bright as to appear to radiate as a light source.
- Derived terms
- autofluoresce, autofluorescing, biofluoresce, fluorescamine, fluorescein, fluorescin
- Related terms
- fluorescence, fluorescent, fluorescer, fluorescently, calesce, recalesce