retina

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
retina /ˈrɛtɪnə/

▶noun (pl. retinas or retinae /-niː/) 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.

– derivatives
retinal adjective,
retinitis noun.

– origin ME: from med. L., from L. rete ‘net’.

'retina' also found in these Oxford entries:

blind spot - choroid - cone - detached - fovea - lens - macula - ophthalmoscope - photopigment - pupil - red-eye - retinitis pigmentosa - retinopathy - rod

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