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fluoresced

fluoresced is the simple past and past participle of fluoresce.

Meaning of fluoresce

Verb

fluoresce (third-person singular simple present fluoresces, present participle fluorescing, simple past and past participle fluoresced)

  1. (intransitive) 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. (transitive) 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...
  3. (intransitive) Of colours, to be very bright; to be so bright as to appear to radiate as a light source.

Questions about fluoresced

What is fluoresced the simple past and past participle of?
Fluoresced is the simple past and past participle of fluoresce.

Words near fluoresced in the dictionary

  1. fluorephore
  2. fluorephores
  3. fluorescamine
  4. fluorescamines
  5. fluoresce
  6. fluoresced
  7. fluorescein
  8. fluoresceinated
  9. fluoresceine
  10. fluoresceines
  11. fluoresceins

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