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Retina

noun

(pl. retinas, retinae)

The innermost light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball; it is continuous with the optic nerve.

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"Retina" Quotes from Famous Books

... lines and, striking objects before us, is reflected in all directions. Some of these rays passing through a point situated behind the lenses of the eye, strike the retina. The multiplication of these rays on the retina produces a picture of whatever is before the eye, such as can be seen on the ground glass at the back of a photographer's camera, or on the table of a camera obscura, both of which ...

— The Practice and Science Of Drawing • Harold Speed

... fortunately these did not sting—also placidly roamed upon every available patch of skin with a provoking tickling. A great number of them settled along the edges of the eyelids, attracted by the sheen of the retina of the eye, into which they gazed with great interest. Others, more inquisitive, would explore the inside of your ears; while millions—actually millions—of pium, the tiny gnats—more impertinent than all the others taken together—dashed with ...

— Across Unknown South America • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... depth, too, in that concave hemisphere, through which the vision sinks like a falling star, that excites and fills the imagination. What it shows is only a shadow, but all things seen are mere shadows painted on the retina, and you have, at such times, a realistic sense of the beautiful and bold imagery which calls a favorite fountain of the East the Eye of ...

— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI. • Various

... will materially assist me in my description if you will endeavour to draw the following landscape on the retina ...

— Hudson Bay • R.M. Ballantyne

Words linked to "Retina" : macular area, neuroepithelium, macula, optic disc, tissue layer, eye, optic disk, blind spot, fovea centralis, rod, visual cell, membrane, oculus, yellow spot, macula lutea, fovea, parafovea, cone, optic, cone cell, rod cell