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Retinal logo #10101) Adjective for rods and cones 2) Involving part of the eye 3) Like some biometric scans 4) Like some cones 5) Membrane 6) Of an eye membrane 7) Of an eye part 8) Of part of the eye 9) Relating to an eye layer 10) Tissue layer
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Retinal logo #10101) Retinene
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Retinal logo #21000 Retinal, also called retinaldehyde or vitamin A aldehyde, is one of the many forms of vitamin A (the number of which varies from species to species). Retinal is a polyene chromophore, and bound to proteins called opsins, is the chemical basis of animal vision. Bound to proteins called type 1 rhodopsins, retinal allows certain microorganisms to con...
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Retinal logo #21002• (a.) Of or pertaining to the retina.
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retinal logo #210051. pertaining to the retina. 2. the aldehyde of retinol, derived by the oxidative enzymatic splitting of absorbed dietary carotene, and having vitamin A activity. In the retina, retinal combines with opsins to form visual pigments. One isomer, 11-cis retinal combines with opsin in the rods (scotopsin) to form rhodopsin, or visual purple. Anothe...
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retinal logo #21003(from the article `Physical Sciences`) ...can play in the chemistry of complex molecules. Valentyn Prokhorenko of the University of Toronto and colleagues investigated whether the wave ... ...alpha- and beta-carotenes and cryptoxanthin are important to humans, and beta-carotene is the most active. Retinol (vitamin A alcohol) is ... I...
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retinal logo #21160A crystalline retinal pigment, C19H27CHO, a component of rhodopsin. Also called retinene.
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retinal logo #209731. <anatomy> Pertaining to the retina. ... 2. <biochemistry> The aldehyde of retinol, derived by the oxidative enzymatic splitting of absorbed dietary carotene and having vitamin A activity. In the retina, retinal combines with opsins to form visual pigments. One isomer, 11 cis retinal combines with opsin in the rods (scotopsin) to form...
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retinal logo #21001(ret´ĭ-nәl) pertaining to the retina. the aldehyde of retinol, having vitamin A activity. One isomer (11-cis-retinal) combines with opsin in the retinal rods (scotopsin) to form rhodopsin, or visual purple; another, all-trans-retinal, or visual yellow, results from the bleaching of rhodopsin by light,...
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retinal logo #10444Aldehyde of retinoic acid (vitamin A); complexed with opsin forms rhodopsin. Photosensitive component of all known visual systems. Absorption of light causes retinal to shift from the 11- cis form to the all- trans configuration, and through a complex cascade of reactions excites activity in the neurons synapsed with the rod cell.
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Retinal logo #20972Ret'i·nal adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the retina. Retinal purple (Physiol. Chem.) , the visual purple.
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Retinal logo #20907Relating to the retina.
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retinal logo #21219Type: Term Pronunciation: ret′i-năl Definitions: 1. Relating to the retina. 2. Retinaldehyde, most commonly referring to the all-trans form; participates in the visual process; 11-cis-retinal binds with an opsin to form iodopsin or rhodopsin; light causes the formation of all-trans-retinal, which dissociates from the protein.  ...
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Retinal logo #20909Retinal: Pertaining to the retina, the extraordinary layer of neurons (nerve cells) that line the back of the eye, which can sense light and create impulses capable of voyaging through the optic nerve to the brain where the impulses are recognized as an image. For a diagram showing the retina and other structures in the eye, see: Retina.
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retinal logo #20400[adj] - in or relating to the retina of the eye
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retinal logo #21009retinal In, pertaining to, or relating to the retina of the eye: 'The doctor examined the retinal cells.' Related references to 'eye' or 'eye part' word families: blepharo-; core-; corneo-; lenti-, lens-; lenticulo-; irido-; ocelli-; oculo-; op-, -optic; opo-; ophthalm...
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retinal logo #20974 adjective in or relating to the retina of the eye; `retinal cells`
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