Meaning

1 senses

  1. A lamp whose light exits through a narrow slit.

    (ophthalmology) a lamp that emits a narrow but intense beam of light that enables an ophthalmologist, using a microscope, to view the retina and optic nerve

Origin

From slit + lamp.

From slit + lamp.

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Forms

plural: slit lamps
Singularslit lamp
Pluralslit lamps

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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