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retina

[ US /ˈɹɛtənə/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɛtɪnɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the innermost light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball; it is continuous with the optic nerve

How To Use retina In A Sentence

  • They’re doing research, Dwayne, on what they call retinal discharge. Underworld
  • His dissection of the eye yielded the distinction between cornea, retina, iris, and chorioid coat.
  • As impressively elegant as the iPhone 4's 3.5? retina display is, the X's 4.3? superscreen makes for larger type and easier tapping. PCWorld
  • This alters the way in which one of the proteins in the retina—rhodopsin, a pigment responsible for night vision as well as blue-green color vision—behaves. Birdology
  • It could be the retina, or the way the brain interprets the retina. Times, Sunday Times
  • Identification by retinal scanning is complicated by eye movements.
  • The medial and lateral portions of the tendon of the Quadriceps pass down on either side of the patella, to be inserted into the upper extremity of the tibia on either side of the tuberosity; these portions merge into the capsule, as stated above, forming the medial and lateral patellar retinacula. III. Syndesmology. 7b. The Knee-joint
  • Each dimension corresponds to activity rates in one of three classes of photoreceptors present in the human retina and their efferent paths: the red-green opponent pathway, yellow-blue opponent pathway, and black-white (contrast) opponent pathway. The Philosophy of Neuroscience
  • In some cases a scleral buckle, a tiny synthetic band, is attached to the outside of the eyeball to gently push the wall of the eye against the detached retina.
  • Human retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cell cultures are usually obtained from donor eyes; isolation and culture of RPE cells obtained by evisceration has not been reported previously.
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