How to Use retina in a Sentence
retina
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In this method, the retina is scanned with a beam of light.
— William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024 -
The cornea's function is to focus light on the retina at the back of the eye.
— Author: Roni Caryn Rabin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2018 -
My wife swore to get the spot on her retina checked again.
— Pardeep Toor, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2022 -
Would the person then sense light on both sides of the retina?
— Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2018 -
In normal vision, light hits the retina at the back of the eye.
— Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 24 May 2021 -
But the retina, which lies between the two, no longer works.
— Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 May 2021 -
The retina has two types of light-sensing cells: rods and cones.
— Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2020 -
But why Poor’s retina, and not that of any of his colleagues?
— Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022 -
When the stream of photons struck the retina, neurons fired.
— Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023 -
Plus, the retina display makes reading the screen at a glance easy.
— Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2024 -
As the disease progressed, the rod cells around the edges of my retina would die, followed by the cones.
— Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023 -
These are the light-sensing cells that line your retina, the back part of your eyeball.
— Mark D. Fairchild, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2019 -
In this man’s eye, the edge seemed blurry and the flat screen of the retina seemed to bulge forward around the fuzzy circle.
— Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 16 June 2021 -
The lens bends the light rays, focusing them to form an image on the retina.
— Star Tribune, 21 May 2021 -
Light enters the front of the eye and is focused onto a structure at the back called the retina.
— Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2024 -
The blast left the front part of Northup's eye deformed, damaging the cornea and bruising the retina.
— Ashley Welch, CBS News, 29 June 2018 -
The damage on her left retina, the area at the back of the eye where the brain receives images, looked like the shape of a partial eclipse.
— Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2024 -
Patterns of light falling on the retina send signals to the visual cortex in the back of the brain.
— Elizabeth Finkel, Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023 -
The retina is the light-detecting part of your eye that transmits those signals to the brain.
— Jason Rossi, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2024 -
There are many different kinds of cells in the retina of a human eye.
— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2023 -
The microLED film sits on the retina and moves with the eye for constant pixel-to-cell mapping.
— Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023 -
The back of the eye, called the retina, has a delicate central area known as the macula.
— Time, 26 Aug. 2019 -
The uvea is the middle layer of the eye between the sclera (white part) and the retina (the light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye).
— Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023 -
This is the lowest layer of the retina and serves to link the light-sensitive tissue above to the synapses which lead to the brain.
— The Economist, 28 June 2018 -
The flagship item might just be a lace bodysuit in hot pink and retina-searing green.
— Steff Yotka, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2020 -
The eclipse may cause discomfort — but likely won’t since the retina doesn’t have pain nerves.
— Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024 -
If your eyes can’t do that on their own, and the focal point is off the surface of the retina, your vision is blurry.
— Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021 -
The retina, a very sensitive part of our eye, is at risk during these events.
— George Dvorsky / Gizmodo, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024 -
In the images, my retinas were smoggy yellow orbs, threaded with red veins like the spindly branches of dead trees.
— Katie Gutierrez, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024 -
These cells, which form the retina nerve layer, capture visual information and transmit it through the optic nerve to the brain.
— Mark Gurarie, Health, 3 Oct. 2024
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