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UK
/ɹˈɛtɪnəl/
]
[ US /ˈɹɛtənəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛtənəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from rhodopsin by the action of light
ADJECTIVE
-
in or relating to the retina of the eye
retinal cells
How To Use retinal In A Sentence
- They’re doing research, Dwayne, on what they call retinal discharge. Underworld
- Identification by retinal scanning is complicated by eye movements.
- 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.
- All SBS cases had a clinical history of whiplash shaking of the head and had autopsy findings of subdural, subarachnoid, and bilateral retinal hemorrhages.
- The retinal pigment epithelium, which is the outer layer of the retina, fails to carry out its function as a result of which there is accumulation of the breakdown products.
- The most urgent diagnosis is retinoblastoma, a malignancy most likely arising from retinal germ cells.
- However, the neovascular, exudative form results in serous or hemorrhagic detachment of retinal pigment epithelium and choroidal neovascularization.
- Aiming at the bad performance of existing retinal blood vessel segmentation methods for small and low contrast vessels, a new segmentation method based on transition region extraction is proposed.
- He subsequently developed a left retinal detachment and was referred to the vitreoretinal unit for surgery.
- It could involve retinal photoreceptors, extraretinal photoreceptors in the pineal or elsewhere, photopigments such as cryptochromes within the retina or brain, or it might be mediated through a non-visual pathway.