camera lucida in English

noun
1
an instrument in which rays of light are reflected by a prism to produce on a sheet of paper an image, from which a drawing can be made.
The drawings were made on a homogeneous paper using a camera lucida fitted on a stereomicroscope.

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1. Even optical instruments, such as perspective machines, the cameraobscura and the camera lucida, were used sparingly.

2. Hippocampal CA3 neurons were traced using camera lucida, and dendritic branching points (a measure of dendritic Arborization) and intersections (a measure of dendritic length) were quantified.