actinic

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Two welders, their eyes protected from the blinding actinic rays of a powerful arc by brown glasses, worked behind them.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020

Ms. Rought said it was not unusual for a skin check to lead her to to freeze as many as 30 precancerous lesions called actinic keratoses on a patient during a single visit.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2017

Ms. Rought said her “rule of thumb” was that 20 percent of actinic keratoses progress to cancer.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2017

Prosecutors say Kolbusz falsely diagnosed patients with actinic keratosis, or sun-induced skin lesions that can potentially become cancerous.

From Washington Times • Oct. 21, 2014

Mr. Gaffield also extended his experiments to ascertain the power of different coloured glasses to transmit the actinic or chemical rays, and found that blue would transmit the most and red and orange the least.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry