sistema della retina

English translation: retina / system of the retina

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Italian term or phrase:sistema della retina
English translation:retina / system of the retina
Entered by: Chants

15:19 Jul 7, 2014
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Italian term or phrase: sistema della retina
Again, not sure what the correct term is.. somehow retinal system doesnt sound correct
Chants
Local time: 11:18
retina / system of the retina
Explanation:
Retinal is one of the components of rhodopsin. Retinal is a chromophore, a light absorbing molecule. (from "Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel)

I would use retina, but if the context requires you could use system of the retina
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Roberta Assandri Siegwart
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4retina / system of the retina
Roberta Assandri Siegwart
3structure of the retina
liz askew
3visual system/systems of the retina
dandamesh


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retina / system of the retina


Explanation:
Retinal is one of the components of rhodopsin. Retinal is a chromophore, a light absorbing molecule. (from "Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel)

I would use retina, but if the context requires you could use system of the retina

Roberta Assandri Siegwart
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structure of the retina


Explanation:
Vision | Anatomy and Physiology | Sense Organs - Inkling
https://www.inkling.com/read/anatomy-and-physiology...6th/.....
describe the anatomy of the eye and its accessory structures;; discuss the structure of the retina and its receptor cells;; explain how the optical system of the eye ...

all I can find is "visual system"

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Progressive Retinal Atrophy/Degeneration in Cats (PRA, PRD)
www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?aid=342
This is one reason why cat foods and some feline nutritional supplements contain taurine. Anatomy of ... The retina. The retina is the structure affected in PRA.

liz askew
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visual system/systems of the retina


Explanation:
photopoc system and scotopic system, literally systems ad the retina


Performance of the photopic and scotopic divisions of the visual ...
www.expertconsultbook.com/.../linkTo?...
Under moonlight levels of illumination, our scotopic and photopic systems are both ... Section 6/Chapter 20/2/Photopic vision: the cone system is ... from Adler's Physiology of the Eye.

http://online.universita.zanichelli.it/watsonbreedlove/files...

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http://www.academia.edu/4491812/Photopic_Mesopic_and_Scotopi...

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A CNN framework for modeling parallel processing in a mammalian retina
D Bálya, B Roska, T Roska… - International Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
... From an engineering point of view, the retina has two main parts: the outer and the inner retina.The outer retina is the same for all the different inner retina systems [16]. The inner retina hasseveral types of ganglion cells with their pre-processing layers. ...


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