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cone cell

NOUN
  1. a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color

How To Use cone cell In A Sentence

  • All the males of most species, and many of the females, are dichromatic, meaning they only have two kinds of cone cells. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Cone cells number four per facet in many compound eyes.
  • Most birds, like most mammals, have a single area within the eye of perfect vision, called the fovea, where cone cells, which detect sharp contrast and detail, are most concentrated. Birdology
  • When the proportion of stimulating three kinds of optic cone cells is changed externally, the codes of visional area of cerebral cortex are changed and thus the ability of discrimination between two color objects is improved.
  • The scientists, who examined retinas of 17 different species of shark, discovered that the creatures had only one type of colour-sensitive cell, known as a cone cell, in their eyes.
  • My telescope gathers about 2,000 times as much light as the unaided eye, enough to activate the cone cells in the human retina, so some color appears.
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