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condenser or condenser lens(medicine)
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Abbe operation(medicine)
Abbe limit(medicine)
Abbe flap(medicine)
Abbe apertometre(medicine)

oenothera (iou) and Abbe's condenser (medicine)


oenothera (iou)



oenothera noun. E17.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Greek oinotheras an unknown narcotic plant, lit. 'Wine-trap', from oinos Wine (but prob. a false reading for onotheras, from onos ass).]
Any plant of the genus Oenothera, of the willowherb family, comprising chiefly N. American plants with large, often yellow, flowers.
? Those which open in the day are alternatively called sundrops, those which open in the evening, evening primrose.

Abbe's condenser (medicine)


Abbe's condenser


A system of two or three wide-angle, achromatic, convex and planoconvex lenses that may be moved upward or downward beneath the stage of a microscope, thereby regulating the concentration of light (directly from a bulb or reflected from a mirror) that passes through the material to be examined on the stage.