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photophore|ˈfəʊtəfɔə(r)|
[mod. ad. Gr. ϕωτοϕόρος light-bearing or -bringing: see photo- and -phore.]
1. An apparatus with an electric light, used for examination of internal organs of the body and for other purposes.
1885Athenæum 12 Dec. 773/3 Mr. J. Mayall, jun., exhibited the Helot-Trouvé electric photophore, which had been recommended as an excellent illuminant for microscopical purposes. 1893Syd. Soc. Lex., Photophore, the name for an electric light for use in laryngoscopy, adapted to a forehead-band, so as to be reflected by the laryngoscopic mirror into the mouth and throat under examination.
2. A luminiferous organ in certain animals.
1898Nature 23 June LVIII. 192/1 The new bathybial fish from Lord Howe Island,..æthoprora perspicillata,..distinguished..by the presence of a pair of supernumerary photophores between the upper angle of the eye and the ante-orbital. 1934Bull. N.Y. Zool. Soc. XXXVII. 193/1, I [sc. W. Beebe] suddenly saw the amazing beauty of the photophores [of the constellation fish, Bathysidus pentagrammus]. There were five rows of these. 1963P. H. Greenwood Norman's Hist. Fishes (ed. 2) x. 168 There are typically two rows of organs, or photophores, on either side of the fish [sc. a wide-mouth]. 1964Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. II. 354 In each of these groups of prawns the pattern of the photophores is similar. 1974Nature 18 Jan. 155/2 The ventral photophores of some mesopelagic fishes in the upper regions of the sea may produce bioluminescence. |