Definition of Retinular

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retinular

retinoscopies
retinoscopy
retinotectal
retinotomy
retinotopic
retinotopically
retint
retinted
retinting
retints
retinue
retinued
retinues
retinula
retinulae
retinular (current term)
retinulas
retinulate
retinyl
retinyl phosphate
retinylamine
retinyls
retinæ
retiped
retiracies
retiracy
retirade
retirades
retiral
retirals

Literary usage of Retinular

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"The retinular cell appears to be a modified nerve-element. ... The middle cytoplasmic region of the retinular cell is the densest region. ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"Each retin- ula cell sends in a process to the retinular ganglion which has the ... The nerve fibres of the eye are differentiated portions of the retinular ..."

3. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"There are five elongated retinular cells grouped together about the optical ... with the remaining four retinular cells, to a chitinous rod or rhabdomere. ..."

4. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"The retinular cells are almost always seven in number, each bearing on its inner surface a ... The posterior pigment is in the retinular cells. ..."

5. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"This last view has recently been accepted by KINGSLEY also, who originally thought that the layer of the crystalline cones and the retinular layer arose ..."

6. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals by Gilbert Charles Bourne (1902)
"There are five elongated retinular cells grouped together about the optical ... with the remaining four retinular cells, to a chitinous rod or rhabdomere. ..."

7. An Introduction to Zoology by Robert William Hegner (1910)
"Fibers from the optic nerve enter at the base of the ommatidium and communicate with the inner ends of the retinular cells (jo). VISION. ..."

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