photo-, phot-, -photic +

A device that generates electrical energy from light energy, usually as a voltage or current.

A cell capable of perceiving the presence of light.

Referring to the chemical properties of light; chemically reactive in the presence of light or other radiation.

1. The branch of chemistry having to do with the effect of light, or other radiant energy, while producing a chemical action, as with photographs.
2. The scientific study of chemical changes caused, or influenced, by the effects of light.

The treatment of cancer by intravenous injection of a photosensitizing agent; such as, hematoporphyrin, followed by exposure to visible light of superficial tumors or deep tumors by a fiberotic probe.

Pertaining to, or referring to, the chromatic or coloring action of light; pertaining to or produced by photochromy.

1. A reference to a material, such as certain glass or film, which turns dark when exposed to light and returns to its normal transparency with the removal of the light source.
2. Relating to, or characterized by, changing color as a result of exposure to incident radiation.

A light-sensitive spectacle lens that reduces light transmission in sunlight and increases transmission in reduced light.

Changing color as a result of exposure to incident radiation; a property of certain organisms when exposed to the light of a particular wavelength.

1. A microorganism whose pigmentation develops as a result of exposure to light.
2. a mycobacterium that forms yellow or orange colonies when grown in the light.

Forming pigment when cultured in the light.

This characteristic is useful for classifying pathogenic mycobacteria (includes the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and leprosy).

1. An instrument for taking a series of instantaneous photographs at regular short intervals of time; also, each of the photographs so taken.
2. An instrument by which a beam of light is caused to produce a photographic image at some precise instant of time; for example, so as to show the exact time at which a star crosses the meridian.

The art of recording or measuring intervals of time with the photochronograph.

Moving in response to the stimulus of light.

1. Condensation of protein material by the controlled use of an intense beam of light; used especially in the treatment of retinal detachment and the destruction of abnormal retinal vessels, or of intraocular tumor masses.
2. A technique using intense light energy, as from a laser, to produce scar tissue used in treating certain eye disorders, in medical and biological research, etc.