NOUN
- a red photopigment in the retinal rods of vertebrates; dissociates into retinene by light
How To Use visual purple In A Sentence
- Flashbangs produced an incredibly bright light—approximately two million candela, which even with eyes closed would cause a bleaching of the rhodopsin, the visual purple in the eye, creating the spots and temporary blindness most people have experienced and referred to as the flashbulb effect. State of the Union
- And for vision it is also necessary that there should be visual purple behind the retina and an opaque cornea and iris.
- Blurred vision can be a lack of a light sensitive pigment called rhodopsin, or visual purple, that’s composed of vitamin A and protein. Human Eye: Part 4
- It is the reddish purple color of retinal that gives rhodopsin its former name visual purple.
- Flashbangs produced an incredibly bright light—approximately two million candela, which even with eyes closed would cause a bleaching of the rhodopsin, the visual purple in the eye, creating the spots and temporary blindness most people have experienced and referred to as the flashbulb effect. State of the Union
