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
So, they used confocal microscopy at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, a DOE Office of Science user facility at Brookhaven Lab, to confirm that this was the case.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2024
The team also used confocal microscopy, a technique that allows for higher resolution images of certain sections of the artifacts.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2019
Point-scanning confocal microscopes produce sharp images of subcellular structures by scanning a tightly focused laser beam across a sample, exciting fluorescence in the sample pixel by pixel.
From Nature • Nov. 25, 2019
Two ellipsoids in which the principal sections lie in the same planes, and have the same foci, are called confocal.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
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