Meaning of iriscope | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Examples

“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.”

“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...”

“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.”

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