- bathoflore
- An atom or group of atoms that, by its presence in a molecule, shifts the latter's fluorescent radiation in the direction of longer wavelength, or reduces the fluorescence. Cf.:auxoflore.
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batho·flore (bathґo-flor) [batho- + fluorescence] an atom or group that decreases the intensity of fluorescence of a compound in which it occurs; cf. auxoflore.
Medical dictionary. 2011.