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camera lucida

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camera lucida [¦kam·rə ′lü·səd·ə]
(optics)
An instrument having a peculiarly shaped prism or a system of mirrors, and often a microscope, which causes a virtual image of an object to be produced on a plane surface, enabling the image's outline to be traced.


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Lubbock made drawings for me with the camera lucida of the jaws which I had dissected from the workers of the several sizes.
 
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