relucency
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Dispersion of light within the eye (leading to loss of focus), a typical symptom of cataracts.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Each has a complex cellular structure, which leads to some internal dispersion of light, a feature called ‘relucency’. The more dense the optical structure is, the greater is its relucency. Relucency is a measure of the heterogeneity of a medium. There is no relucency in quality glass."
- "The guttae (guttata is an adjective!) are evident on slit lamp biomicroscopy as tiny drop-like relucencies on the posterior corneal surface."
- "Lesions appear as subepithelial to stromal gray/white, crystalline, relucencies within the corneal stroma."