Optical spectroscopy
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| Optical spectroscopy | |
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| Term | Optical spectroscopy |
| Short definition | optical tract - (pronounced) (OP-tik tract) The nerves that travel from the optic chiasm (place in the brain where some of the optic nerve fibers cross) to specific parts of the brain involved in vision |
| Type | Cancer terms |
| Specialty | Oncology |
| Language | English |
| Source | NCI |
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optical spectroscopy - (pronounced) (OP-tih-kul spek-TROS-koh-pee) In medicine, a technique that uses low-level light, fiber optic instruments, and detectors to examine tissue. It is studied to identify differences between normal cells and cells that can become cancer, and to identify cancer cells that remain in the edges of tumor tissue removed from a patient
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