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optophysiology

optophysiology noun: the physiology of the action of light.

Noun

optophysiology (uncountable)

  1. The physiology of the action of light
    • They were using optical coherence tomography for this purpose and named the method optophysiology.2015 December 1, “Investigating Tissue Optical Properties and Texture Descriptors of the Retina in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
  2. The physiology of vision

Origin of optophysiology

From opto- + physiology.

Questions about optophysiology

What does optophysiology mean?
Optophysiology means the physiology of the action of light.
What part of speech is optophysiology?
Optophysiology is a noun.

Words near optophysiology in the dictionary

  1. optophobia
  2. optophone
  3. optophones
  4. optophysiologic
  5. optophysiological
  6. optophysiology
  7. optoplasmonic
  8. optoporation
  9. optoporations
  10. optosensing
  11. optospectroscopic

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