fluoresce

/fləˈɹɛs/
verb 3

Definitions

verb

1

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.

2

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.

3

Of colours, to be very bright; to be so bright as to appear to radiate as a light source.

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