See Also: alterity(medicine)
alterity(dictionary)

laser (oh) and alterity (medicine)


laser (oh)



[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: From " light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"]
a piece of equipment that produces a powerful narrow beam of light that can be used in medical operations, to cut metals, or to make patterns of light for Entertainment
::laser surgery
a beam of light produced by a laser

alterity (medicine)


alterity


The state or quality of being Other; a being otherwise. "For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented." (Coleridge)

Origin: F. Alterite.

Source: Websters Dictionary