Retina is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETINA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a membrane of the eye
• a layer at the back of the eyeball that contains cells sensitive to light, which trigger nerve impulses that pass via the optic nerve to the brain, where a visual image is formed.
• light-sensitive membrane at the back of the eye
• The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye.
• the innermost light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball; it is continuous with the optic nerve

Words related to RETINA

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Words that contain RETINA

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How to use RETINA in a sentence

• Rolfe looked steadily at the corpse for some time, impressing a picture of it in every detail on his mental retina.
• They are lifted, tossed and swung, but adults pass their lives very much on a level, and only judge of heights by inference from the picture on their retina.
• Turn on the first and second, and the picture on the screen will be identical with that which fell on the retina.
• The dragoon took us by the arms, and away we scampered over the Campagna, with one of the loveliest sunsets before us, that ever painted itself on my retina.
• Such a duration of impressions on the retina proves that the effect of external influences on nerve-vesicles is not necessarily transitory.
• Life would be a night-mare for him, soon over, if he had to take account, for example, of every object flashed on the retina of his eye during a country walk.
• We may begin by calling it the eye, the retina, or what we will.
• In both cases the image remains on virtually the same point of the retina, and in both cases muscular sensations afford the knowledge that the eye is moving.
• Thus the retina was not stimulated during the latter part of its movement, just when Cornelius assumed the rebound to take place.
• Behind this slit was an illuminated field which stimulated the retina.
• The fact of its having been properly given to the retina is made certain by the presence of the now disconnected ends.
• Near objects are brought to a focus behind the retina instead of on it, and hence are not visible.
• Even though the muscles of accommodation do their best to bulge and thicken the lens, the rays of light are not bent sufficiently to focus sharply on the retina.
• Far objects are brought to a focus in front of the retina instead of on it, and hence are not visible.
• Before the retina of the eye they swarmed exactly as a nearer cloud of mosquitoes would appear.
• What is it that happens? A picture of the rapidly advancing fist is made upon the retina at the back of the eye.
• The man of science tells me that the image which the object looked at projects upon the retina of the eye grows larger as we approach objects.
• The retina of outer vision, though sensitive and delicate, may, nevertheless, be a hindrance to the inner eye which alone can perceive.
• The retina of outer vision though sensitive and delicate may nevertheless be a hindrance to the inner eye which alone can perceive.
• In this case no light could reach the retina except such rays as could pass through the substance of the iris.
• When a bright light strikes the retina of one eye alone, the iris contracts, but the iris of the other eye moves after a measurable interval of time.
• The crystalline lens and retina may be treated similarly.
• Well, she does seem to strike agreeably upon the retina.
• Light opens the eye without our intention, and we are at no trouble to paint on the retina what must there appear.
• If we were to show a fine landscape to a Hottentot, it would be a mistake to say he saw it, though the image might be demonstrable on the retina of his eye.
• Her mistress and Owen were painted on the over-strained retina, and she could not efface the picture.

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