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
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My wife swore to get the spot on her retina checked again.
—Pardeep Toor, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2022
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In normal vision, light hits the retina at the back of the eye.
—Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 24 May 2021
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But the retina, which lies between the two, no longer works.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 May 2021
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But why Poor’s retina, and not that of any of his colleagues?
—Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
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When the stream of photons struck the retina, neurons fired.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
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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
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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
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The lens bends the light rays, focusing them to form an image on the retina.
—Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
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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
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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
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There are many different kinds of cells in the retina of a human eye.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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The eclipse may cause discomfort — but likely won’t since the retina doesn’t have pain nerves.
—Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
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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
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The retina, a very sensitive part of our eye, is at risk during these events.
—George Dvorsky / Gizmodo, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
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This occurs when the macula, a part of the retina, is damaged.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2024
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The ability to see in low-light conditions involves two structures in the eye: the retina and the iris.
—Matthew Solan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
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Shining a light through the pupil creates scar tissue that the retina can reattach to.
—Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
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The retina, located in the back of the eye, contains two types of light-detecting cells called cones and rods.
—Matthew Solan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
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Light focuses on the front of the retina and makes distant objects seem fuzzy.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2023
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That's because the retina, the area of the eye susceptible to sun damage, doesn't have pain nerves.
—Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2024
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The part of the eye that changes color is the tapetum lucidum, a layer of tissue found behind the retina.
—Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2021
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The first layer of neurons in the retina are the photoreceptors.
—Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 20 May 2021
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The pupil is actually a hole through which light passes to the retina, the light-sensitive layer in the back part of the eye.
—Troy Bedinghaus, Od, Verywell Health, 17 July 2023
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Sight begins when light passes through the cornea and lens and hits neurons called photoreceptors that live in the retina in the back of the eye.
—Ron Winslow, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2022
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He was born without a retina in his left eye, which causes his left cornea to turn outward.
—oregonlive, 5 May 2021
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Floaters are bits of protein in the jelly-like fluid in the back of the eye, called the vitreous humor, which cast a shadow on the retina.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2023
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The cells in the retina, or the back of the eye, which send images to the brain, can be harmed or even destroyed by overexposure to direct sunlight.
—Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
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