About The Medical Condition Birefringence

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Birefringence

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What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Birefringence?

The property of nonisotropic media, such as crystals, whereby a single incident beam of light traverses the medium as two beams, each plane-polarized, the planes being at right angles to each other. (Cline et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)

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