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retroillumination

noun

Etymology

From retro- + illumination.

  1. derived from illumino
  2. derived from illuminatio
  3. borrowed from illumination
  4. prefixed as retroillumination — “retro + illumination”

Definitions

  1. The examination of a body part, or a tissue sample, by shining light from directly behind…

    The examination of a body part, or a tissue sample, by shining light from directly behind it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for retroillumination. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA