retinal
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6.0
- adjective
- /ˈrɛtɪnəl/
- Specialized
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retiniano
- Serial retinal photographs show the rapidity of the retinal progression of untreated disease from a small, peripheral unilateral lesion.
- retinal prosthesis
- retinal hemorrhage
- retinal image
Do they have blood flowing to the retinal tissue or not?
- Do they have blood flowing to the retinal tissue or not?
- This is an unescapable reality of all cells in your body, right from your hair cells to your brain cells to your retinal cells to your toe on both feet.
- There is some truth to blue light affecting your sleep cycle, potentially affecting eye strain and maybe retinal damage.
- Take a picture of his of his eye, e-mail it to me and I'll, I'll run a retinal scan.
- And in those cases, then if it's needed, they can use a laser to just ZAP it and tack it down so that you don't develop a retinal attachment.
Examples
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The retinal implant is a microelectronic prosthesis... ...that can reverse the effects of retinal degeneration.
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Maria is a 6-year-old with retinal detachments in both eyes caused by retinopathy of prematurity.
Academic text (1998) -
I never gave you guys a retinal scan.
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- It requires a retinal scan to shut it down.
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Do they have blood flowing to the retinal tissue or not?
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A retinal identification check is required to proceed.
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Our surveillance cameras captured several images of the terrorist though the mask obviously makes retinal identification impossible.
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A slowed metabolism of the retinal epithelium can cause age-related macular degeneration.
Academic text (1998) -
There are patients with visual cell loss like our rodless coneless mice, but they've still got the photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.
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The doctor explained that damage to the retinal cells could lead to permanent vision loss.
Compounds
- Specialized
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5.7
A security check that uses a picture of the back of the eye to find who a person is
- Specialized
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6.9
The retina pulls away from the back of the eye and causes sudden vision loss that needs urgent treatment
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Retinal comes from retina, which comes from the Latin word rete meaning 'net' because the back of the eye looks like a net of cells, and the ending -al means 'related to', so retinal means 'relating to the retina'.