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FLUORESCENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fluorescent mean?
• FLUORESCENT (noun)
The noun FLUORESCENT has 1 sense:
1. a lighting fixture that uses a fluorescent lamp
Familiarity information: FLUORESCENT used as a noun is very rare.
• FLUORESCENT (adjective)
The adjective FLUORESCENT has 2 senses:
1. emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source
2. brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light
Familiarity information: FLUORESCENT used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A lighting fixture that uses a fluorescent lamp
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
fluorescent; fluorescent fixture
Hypernyms ("fluorescent" is a kind of...):
lighting fixture (a fixture providing artificial light)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source
Similar:
light (characterized by or emitting light)
Derivation:
fluoresce (exhibit or undergo fluorescence)
fluorescence (light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light
Context example:
fluorescent colors
Similar:
colorful; colourful (having much or varied color)
Derivation:
fluoresce (exhibit or undergo fluorescence)
Context examples
An immunoconjugate comprised of the recombinant chimeric monoclonal antibody cetuximab conjugated to the N-hydroxysuccinamide (NHS) ester form of the near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent dye IRDye 800CW (cetuximab-IRDye 800) with potential imaging use.
(Cetuximab-IRDye 800CW, NCI Thesaurus)
It utilizes specific antibodies for the analytes of interest coupled to fluorescent polystyrol beads.
(Multi-Analyte Fluorescent Detection, NCI Thesaurus)
This agent is used as a fluorescent chromosome dye.
(Chromomycin A3, NCI Thesaurus)
The cathepsin-activatable fluorescent probe LUM015 contains the Cy5 fluorophore linked, via a pan-cathepsin protease cleavable peptide, to a fluorescent quencher.
(Cathepsin-Activatable Cy5 Fluorescent Imaging Probe LUM015, NCI Thesaurus)
They are used as fluorescent dyes that bind to DNA and prevent both RNA and protein synthesis.
(Olivomycin, NCI Thesaurus)
A fluorescent stain that binds to the cell wall.
(Calcofluor White Stain, NCI Thesaurus)
The compact fluorescent imaging device can detect single nanoparticles and viruses.
(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)
In addition, demeclocycline, which like other tetracyclines chelates calcium in bone and exhibits a yellow fluorescence under ultraviolet (UV) light, may be used as a fluorescent bone-labeling agent in bone histomorphometry.
(Demeclocycline hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
A piece of DNA that has been labeled, usually radioactively or with a fluorescent dye, which is used in hybridization studies.
(DNA Probes, NCI Thesaurus)
The use of a special microscope to see objects that give off fluorescent light.
(Fluorescence microscopy, NCI Dictionary)
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