relucency
relucency noun: dispersion of light within the eye (leading to loss of focus), a typical symptom of cataracts.
Noun
relucency (countable and uncountable, plural relucencies)
- Dispersion of light within the eye (leading to loss of focus), a typical symptom of cataracts.
- Each has a complex cellular structure, which leads to some internal dispersion of light, a feature called ‘relucency’. The more dense the optical structure is, the greater is its relucency. Relucency is a measure of the heterogeneity of a medium. There is no relucency in quality glass.1981, Frederick Carson Rodger, Eye Disease in the Tropics: A Practical Textbook for Developing Countries, Churchill Livingstone, →ISBN, page 3
- The guttae (guttata is an adjective!) are evident on slit lamp biomicroscopy as tiny drop-like relucencies on the posterior corneal surface.2011, Ralph C. Eagle, Eye Pathology: An Atlas and Text, 2nd edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 98
Forms of relucency
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Origin of relucency
From relucent + -ency.
Questions about relucency
- What does relucency mean?
- Relucency means dispersion of light within the eye (leading to loss of focus), a typical symptom of cataracts.
- What part of speech is relucency?
- Relucency is a noun.
- What is the plural of relucency?
- The plural of relucency is relucencies.
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