confocal
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of confocal
Example Sentences
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It is blocking out the light so she can work at a highly-sensitive confocal microscope that uses lasers to illuminate brain samples.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025
We also relied on confocal and super-high resolution microscopy in isolated mouse heart muscle cells that were treated with the labeled protein.
From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2025
Confocal immunofluorescence pictures were taken with a Leica SP5 confocal microscope and 3–5-μm-thick optical sections were collected.
From Nature • Sep. 19, 2017
Back at Harvard as a junior fellow in the mid-1950s, Dr. Minsky invented the confocal scanning microscope that would eventually find many uses in science.
From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2016
The potential of such a shell at any internal point is constant, and the equipotential surfaces for external space are ellipsoids confocal with the ellipsoidal shell.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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