fluoresce
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from fluorescence.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]fluoresce (third-person singular simple present fluoresces, present participle fluorescing, simple past and past participle fluoresced)
- (intransitive, physics) To emit electromagnetic radiation, especially visible light, when absorbing radiation of some other wavelength.
- 1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 98:
- The blinding light did not hurt, it filled him, he glowed, all his veins fluoresced, each one alive with new growth.
- (transitive, physics) To cause to fluoresce; to make fluorescent.
- 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, , page 622:
- During right robotic thymectomy, fluorescence imaging facilitates identification of the contralateral phrenic nerve by fluorescing the pericardiophrenic vessels.
- (intransitive) Of colours, to be very bright; to be so bright as to appear to radiate as a light source.