FACS
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Biology. fluorescence-activated cell sorter: a machine that sorts cells according to whether or not they have been tagged with antibodies carrying a fluorescent dye, separating the cells mechanically in a vibrating nozzle, imparting a positive or negative charge to cells that fluoresce, and then passing the cells through an electric field to deflect them into appropriate containers.
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Also F.A.C.S. Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
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According to Ekman, thousands of people have been trained in FACS, including Transportation Security Administration personnel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ekman and Friesen ultimately assembled all these combinations—and the rules for reading and interpreting them—into the Facial Action Coding System, or FACS, and wrote them up in a five-hundred-page document.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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