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Definition of Actinic ray

1. Noun. Electromagnetic radiation that can produce photochemical reactions.

Medical Definition of Actinic ray

1. A light ray toward and beyond the violet end of the spectrum that acts upon a photographic plate and produces other chemical effects. Synonym: chemical ray. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Actinic ray

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal (1872)
"Again, glass colored blue with oxide of cobalt allows the actinic ray to pass, ... The fact of yellow glass preventing the passage of the actinic ray has ..."

2. American Physical Education Review by American Physical Education Association (1901)
"... more accurately the physiological effect of the actinic ray, making numerous experiments upon flies, worms, embryos, and other forms of animal life. ..."

3. An Introduction to the Study of Social Evolution: The Prehistoric Period by Francis Stuart Chapin (1913)
"If we distinguish In the sun's rays the heat ray, the light ray and the actinic ray we find that while the heat ray and the actinic ray do not seem to be ..."

4. Radiotherapy and Phototherapy by Charles Warrenne Allen, Milton Franklin, Samuel Stern (1904)
"The actinic-ray reaction is apt to come on, if at all, in from four to five ... The resulting cicatrix after the actinic-ray treatment is softer, whiter, ..."

5. Rational Hydrotherapy: A Manual of the Physiological and Therapeutic Effects by John Harvey Kellogg (1901)
"... Lindholm of Norway, and Finsen of Copenhagen, is the noxious influence of the actinic ray in smallpox. It has been found that if the chemical rays are ..."

6. A Text-book of Diseases of the Nose and Throat by David Braden Kyle (1907)
"This white actinic ray, to certain individuals, seems to produce a violent congestion of the nasal mucous membrane and also of the conjunctiva and skin. ..."

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