How to Use retina in a Sentence

retina

noun
Definition of retinanext
  • Behind the retina is a part of the eye called the choroid.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • 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.
    — New York Times, 11 June 2018
  • 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
  • The buckle will help to reattach the retina to the surface of the eye.
    — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Feb. 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
  • Cells in the retina send signals to the brain via the optic nerve.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2018
  • 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 retina is a layer of light-sensitive tissue in the back of the eye.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Kingfishers streak over the streams, their paths traced on the retina in time-lapse turquoise.
    — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Now that image will be burned in your retinas all week.
    — Ray Hamel, Slate Magazine, 2 Mar. 2018
  • With one swing, the suspect fractured his nose, tore his iris, and left a hole in his retina.
    — Rebecca Pryor, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 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
  • To prove it, Jeff brings out an exact copy of the immunity necklace, the one that a member of Hordak’s Horde seemingly assembled in an assault on all retinas everywhere.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024

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