FLUORESCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fluoresce mean? 

• FLUORESCE (verb)
  The verb FLUORESCE has 1 sense:

1. exhibit or undergo fluorescence

  Familiarity information: FLUORESCE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLUORESCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fluoresce    ... he / she / it fluoresces   
Past simple: fluoresced   
Past participle: fluoresced   
-ing form: fluorescing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exhibit or undergo fluorescence

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "fluoresce" is one way to...):

glow (emit a steady even light without flames)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fluoresce"):

scintillate (physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

fluorescence (light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength)

fluorescent (emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source)

fluorescent (brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light)

 Context examples 

When exposed to specific wavelengths of light, PPIX is activated and, depending on the wavelength and/or intensity of light, either fluoresces, thereby allowing tumor imaging, or induces tumor cell apoptosis.

(Hexaminolevulinate, NCI Thesaurus)

An immunological procedure in which the antibodies are coupled with molecules which fluoresce under ultra violet (UV) light.

(Fluorescent Antibody Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)

Fluorescence bronchoscopy is based on the fact that normal tissue fluoresces differently than abnormal tissue when exposed to an appropriate wavelength of light and that this difference can be detected.

(Fluorescence Bronchoscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

Fluorescein responds to electromagnetic radiation between the wavelengths of 465-490 nm and fluoresces, emitting light at wavelengths of 520-530 nm that can be detected visually.

(Fluorescein Sodium Injection, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile using a single polar flagella, non-spore forming, catalase positive, indole negative, does not reduce nitrate, liquefy gelatin, hydrolyze esculin or Tween 80, does not grow on O/F medium with D-glucose, nor fluoresce on King's B medium.

(Pandoraea pnomenusa, NCI Thesaurus)