Definition of Retinas

1. Noun. A (plural of retina) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Retinas

1. retina [n] - See also: retina

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retinas

retinal pigments
retinal purple
retinal reductase
retinal rod
retinal scanning
retinal vein
retinal vein occlusion
retinal vessels
retinaldehyde
retinaldehyde dehydrogenase
retinaldehyde isomerase
retinaldehyde reductase
retinalite
retinalites
retinals
retinas (current term)
retinasphaltum
retine
retinea
retinectomy
retinene
retinene-1
retinene-2
retinenes
retinerved
retines
retineum
retinic
retinite
retinites

Literary usage of Retinas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin of Vertebrates by Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1908)
"CHAPTER II THE EVIDENCE OF THE ORGANS OF VISION Different kinds of eye.—Simple and compound retinas. — Upright and inverted retinas.—Median eyes. ..."

2. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1915)
"... AND retinas: MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION OF THE EYEBALLS. GE DE SCHWEINITZ, MD, AND TB HOLLOWAY, MD, Philadelphia. Among the interesting ocular lesions ..."

3. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"And this correspondence between the respective points of the retinas is permanent and invariable. Thus the central points, or those where the optic axes ..."

4. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"And this correspondence between the respective points of the retinas is permanent and invariable. Thus the central points, or those where the optic axes ..."

5. Elements of Physiological Psychology: A Treatise of the Activities and by George Trumbull Ladd (1897)
"But the retinas are not symmetrical, and the physiological centre is not the true mathematical centre ; moreover, the eyes, to be of use, ..."

6. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"Rays of light from objects in the common part affect the retinas of both eyes at the same time, vision is here binocular; rays of light from objects at the ..."

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