Fluoroscope
['flʊərəskəʊp;'flɔː-]
Definition
(noun.) an X-ray machine that combines an X-ray source and a fluorescent screen to enable direct observation.
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Definition
(n.) An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.
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Examples
- A device, invented by Edison and called the fluoroscope, was constructed on substantially the same principle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Edison says with regard to this work: When the X-ray came up, I made the first fluoroscope, using tungstate of calcium. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The same journal in its issue of April 1, 1896, shows an Edison fluoroscope in use by an observer, in the now familiar and universal form somewhat like a stereoscope. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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