Birefringence
"Birefringence" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The property of nonisotropic media, such as crystals, whereby a single incident beam of light traverses the medium as two beams, each plane-polarized, the planes being at right angles to each other. (Cline et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D001718
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.590.080
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| Concept/Terms |
Birefringence- Birefringence
- Birefringences
- Birefraction
- Birefractions
- Double Refraction
- Double Refractions
- Refraction, Double
- Refractions, Double
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