iriscope

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noun

A philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films.

Scrabble 12

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nouniriscope (plural iriscopes)

plural iriscopes

  1. A philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films.
  2. A device used in iridology to photograph the eye and send the image to a computer.

    Unlike the other types, even with an iriscope, it's very difficult to ascertain the fibre structure as the iris is deeply suffused with pigment.

    2023, Sarah Donoghue, Modern Iridology
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    My overseas savings came in handy because I could buy an iridology hand lens, which I needed for consultations as I could not afford an iriscope costing R40,000 at the time.

    2012, Thabang Molefi, Dollars to Soweto, page 77

    It's funny, because people sort of—if they know you're an iridologist they say 'What do you see in my eyes?' And of course I'm never drawn into that, because eye-to-eye —just on a one-to-one—you can't really see very much, whereas under the iriscope...

    2013, Ruth Barcan, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, page 73

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