prebleach

prebleach

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ bleach.

Adjective

prebleach (not comparable)

  1. Before a bleaching operation.
    • 2015 October 29, “Delineating the Tes Interaction Site in Zyxin and Studying Cellular Effects of Its Disruption”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      Right panels represent the time-course of a FRAP experiment: prebleach image (top), first image after bleach (middle), 100 s after start of acquisition (bottom).

Verb

prebleach (third-person singular simple present prebleaches, present participle prebleaching, simple past and past participle prebleached)

  1. (transitive) To apply a bleaching operation in advance of further bleaching.
    • 2012, Lawrence D. Robb-Gaspers, Paul A. Anderson, Andrew P. Thomas, “Imaging Whole Organs – Single cell [Ca2+]i measurements in the perfused liver”, in Cristina Fasolato, Rosario Rizzuto, editors, Imaging Living Cells, Springer, →ISBN, page 134:
      Since this autofluorescence component bleaches rapidly, we deliberately prebleach it before starting the experiment.
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