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Definition of Skiascope
1. n. A device for determining the refractive state of the eye by observing the movements of the retinal lights and shadows.
Definition of Skiascope
1. Noun. A retinoscope. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Skiascope
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skiascope
Literary usage of Skiascope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Museum Ideals of Purpose and Method by Benjamin Ives Gilman, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1918)
"The skiascope uses looking from shadow as a means of looking into shadow. ...
The skiascope does this in handy fashion, with the result that we see things ..."
2. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"The skiascope or Retinoscope. Tho refractive power of a lens is expressed in
terms of its principal focal distance; if this is 1 metre, it is said to have ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"This skiascope is very useful as a means of testing the behavior of the ...
This skiascope is obviously the instrument which is best adapted to the study of ..."
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