What's the difference between florescent and translucent?
Florescent
Definition:
(a.) Expanding into flowers; blossoming.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tryptophan quantum yield of Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor excited at 295 nm is very small, indicating that the tryptophan florescence is strongly quenched in the native state of the inhibitor.
(2) Why does Bush’s shirt appear to glow in florescent tints of turquoise and purple?
(3) Two straight canes were modified by fixing florescent horizontal projections approximately two inches up from the tip of the cane.
(4) The patient was instructed to step over the horizontal projected portion, making use of visual cues from the florescent painted projections.
(5) It was suggested that this fluorescence was due to the extraneuronal uptake of norepinephrine, and that progesterone is necessary for the uptake of norepinephrine by subepithelial cells since no florescence was observed in the rat estrus cycle but ovariectomized rats treated with progesterone showed florescence.
(6) Feline leukemia virus was detected by a focus-forming assay and confirmed by florescent antibody.
(7) The incidence of urogenital chlamydia infections among selected patients in Kumasi, Ghana was evaluated using an immuno-florescent monoclonal antibody technique.
(8) Florescence flow cytometry and monoclonal antibodies were used to analyze the composition of leukocytes from peripheral blood and mammary gland secretions.
(9) Florescence-quenching titrations showed that the protein-bound Dnp groups were fully available to the antibody even when the alkyl chain was short.
(10) The electronic pantograph overcomes the limitations of a camera lucida, and is well suited for analyzing connectional neuroanatomical material with bright- and darkfield, polarized light or florescent illumination at a reasonable price and without the complexity and hardware requirements of a computerized system.
(11) In 146 patients the acuity of vision, pupil reactions, the oculomotor function of the nerves, visual fields and ocular fundus were examined, employing florescent angiography in some cases: and in 164 patients the state of the acoustic and vestibular analyzers was studied.
(12) Rabbit anti-MOLT and SOMMER-T sera after absorption with liver and B cell showed florescent ring formation in baboon and stumptail lymphocytes by using immunoflurescence techniques.
(13) Intracellular microelectrodes filled with either Lucifer Yellow CH, a highly florescent dye, or horseradish peroxidase (HRP) were used to electrophysiologically characterize and mark cells in the cerebral cortex of cat.
Translucent
Definition:
(a.) Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.
(a.) Transparent; clear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inexperienced physicians are often unable to immediately identify these translucencies as air enclosures in the intracranial cavity.
(2) An area of translucence around a dense zone, appearing more clearly with traction, is suspicious.
(3) The pearly skin of these subjects becomes more translucent and the detail extra-perfect.
(4) It was concluded that the CPC coating is superior to the PPG coating since no cracking surface develops, it is translucent, and it provides a more effective athrombogenic surface.
(5) The performance capabilities of the instruments were tested on various shades of opaque and translucent dental porcelain surfaces.
(6) With the translucent occluder, retest threshold variability was 18.8% less and sensitivity was increased by 0.7 dB.
(7) Ifind it hard to get excited about slimy, translucent, near‑flavourless egg whites, but I can't bear to throw them away.
(8) Because of its low filler particle percentage, microfilled composite resins--traditionally recommended for anterior restorations--are extremely translucent.
(9) The cell bodies were surrounded by a basal lamina, while the cytoplasmic extensions investing the nerve endings were surrounded by an envelope consisting of alternating electron dense and electron translucent layers containing material that stained with PAS and Alcian Blue.
(10) Formation of neointima and transformation of mesenchymal cells into the endothelial ones are studied using scanning and translucent electron microscopy and autoradiography.
(11) The parent conidium and later the proximal germ tube showed progressive vacuolation and the cytoplasm became largely occupied by electron-translucent material.
(12) To examine the significance of fetal nuchal translucency at 10-14 weeks' gestation in the prediction of abnormal fetal karyotype.
(13) Clinically, cytomegalovirus retinitis is characterized by lesions, usually in the posterior pole, that take the form of fluffy white infiltrates with irregular, translucent, granular appearing margins.
(14) Through dexterous operation of the Shinkai6500's mechanical arms by pilot Sasaki-san, we quickly began collecting samples of rocks, the hot fluids from the vents, and the creatures thriving around them: speckled anemones with almost-translucent tentacles, and the orange-tinted shrimp scurrying among them.
(15) In contrast, the flat-mound and translucent-mound mutants, which aggregate normally, produced very few spores.
(16) The mature resting sporangium (RS) wall of Coelomomyces dodgei (Chytridiomycetes; Blastocladiales) consists of three principal layers: (I) an outer pigmented layer (1.8-2.2 microns) that contains polysaccharide, (II) a middle electron translucent layer (1.3-1.6 microns) comparatively free of polysaccharide, and (III) an inner layer (125 nm) rich in polysaccharide that surrounds the meiospores.
(17) Zone I consisted of osteoblasts adjacent to the bone surface and a supraosteoblast layer of smaller, compact cells, Zone II was a relatively translucent zone with numerous capillaries and Zone III consisted of cells intermingled with collagen fibrils.
(18) Within these small translucent colonies, mutational events occur which give rise to the normal resistant type colonies.
(19) Films are presented for tracking on a translucent screen after reflection from a galvanometer driven mirror.
(20) The plaques were translucent to opaque and varied in size and shape, from multiple isolated islands to bizarre patterns involving more than half the corneal surface.