Usually means: Shine light through for examination.
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  1. transilluminate: Merriam-Webster
  2. transilluminate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. transilluminate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. transilluminate: Wordnik
  5. transilluminate: Wiktionary
  6. transilluminate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. transilluminate: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. transilluminate: Dictionary.com
  9. Transilluminate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. transilluminate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. transilluminate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. transilluminate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. transilluminate: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (transilluminate)

▸ verb:  To pass light easily through an object, body part, or liquid.

Similar:
transluce, retroilluminate, illuminate, lumenize, illumine, inlight, illume, transfuse, see through, alluminate, more...

Opposite:
opaque, block, obstruct

Types:
shine, radiate, beam, cast light on, light up, more...

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Similar:
transluce, retroilluminate, illuminate, lumenize, illumine, inlight, illume, transfuse, see through, alluminate, more...

Opposite:
opaque, block, obstruct

Types:
shine, radiate, beam, cast light on, light up, more...



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