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DIAPHANOSCOPE

\dˈa͡ɪəfˌanəskˌə͡ʊp], \dˈa‍ɪəfˌanəskˌə‍ʊp], \d_ˈaɪ_ə_f_ˌa_n_ə_s_k_ˌəʊ_p]\

Definitions of DIAPHANOSCOPE

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary

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A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

An instrument for illuminating the interior of a cavity in order to determine the translucency of its walls.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

Apparatus having electric light used to examine cavities.

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

[Greek] An appliance for illuminating a cavity of the body so as to render it more or less visible through the overlying structures. Hence, Diaphanoscopy, examination by the d.

1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
By Alexander Duane

A device for examining closed cavities by means of transmitted light.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

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