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222 relations: Aardvark, Adaptation (eye), Afterimage, Anaglyph 3D, Arthur König, Australian Cattle Dog, Averted vision, Barreleye, Beluga whale, Beta adrenergic receptor kinase, Bird vision, Blackmouth catshark, Blue cone monochromacy, Blue iguana, Carbon star, Cat, Catfish, Chemotaxonomy, Chroma subsampling, CIE 1931 color space, Ciliopathy, Circadian rhythm, Color, Color appearance model, Color balance, Color blindness, Color constancy, Color television, Color vision, Comephorus, Common degu, Cone cell, Congenital disorder of glycosylation, Convergence micropsia, Crocodile, Cyanopsia, Cyclic nucleotide, Cyclic nucleotide–gated ion channel, Cyclura nubila, Cyclura ricordi, Dark adaptor goggles, Deep sea, Deep sea fish, Depolarization, Diabetic retinopathy, Disc shedding, Discworld (world), Diversity of fish, Dog anatomy, Dolphin, ..., Dopamine, Double Vision (1971 film), Duplex retina, Dynamic range, Eagle eye, Eastern shovelnose ray, Eccentricity effect, Edmund Landolt, Eigengrau, Electroretinography, Epiretinal membrane, Equine vision, European mole, European nightjar, Evolution, Evolution of human colour vision, Exit sign, External limiting membrane, Eye, Felidae, Field of view, Fish, Fish anatomy, Fish physiology, Flicker fusion threshold, Fovea centralis, Franz Christian Boll, FVB Mice, G beta-gamma complex, Gene therapy of the human retina, Genetic drift, George Wald, Giant retinal ganglion cells, Gordon Lynn Walls, Green iguana, Gustducin, Heinrich Müller (physiologist), Hemeralopia, Horseshoe crab, Human eye, Hydrophiinae, Iconic memory, Ignacio Provencio, Index of anatomy articles, Index of biochemistry articles, Infant visual development, Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells, Irlen syndrome, Johannes von Kries, John Kay (musician), King-Wai Yau, Knobloch syndrome, Kruithof curve, Lancelet, Lateral inhibition, Latimeria, Layer of rods and cones, Lemur, Leopard complex, Light, Lilac chaser, List of distinct cell types in the adult human body, List of MeSH codes (A08), List of MeSH codes (A09), List of MeSH codes (A11), Low vision assessment, Macula of retina, Mammalian eye, Melanin, Melanopsin, Mesopic vision, Microbial rhodopsin, Microevolution, Miosis, Misha Mahowald, Mitochondrial optic neuropathies, Monochromacy, Movie projector, Muller glia, Mutation, Night sky, Night vision, Nutritional neuroscience, Nyctalopia, Oceanic dolphin, Oguchi disease, Oil droplet, Oilbird, Okapi, OPN1LW, Opponent process, Opsin, Optic disc, Optic disc drusen, Optical phenomena, Optics and vision, Orchestrated objective reduction, Outer plexiform layer, Parasol cell, Parietal eye, PDE6A, PDE6B, PDE6D, Pelagic fish, Perception, Peripheral vision, Photopigment, Photoreceptor cell, Photoreceptor protein, Pinniped, Platynereis dumerilii, Porpoise, Primary color, Prosimian, Pteropus, Purkinje effect, Rattlesnake, Rayleigh scattering, Receptive field, Red, Retina, Retina bipolar cell, Retinal, Retinal degeneration (rhodopsin mutation), Retinal G protein coupled receptor, Retinal ganglion cell, Retinal pigment epithelium, Retinal precursor cells, Retinal regeneration, Retinal waves, Retinitis pigmentosa, Retinol dehydrogenase, Retinylidene protein, Rhodopsin, River dolphin, Rod, Ros, RPE65, Russell Foster, Science, Scotopic vision, Sense, Sensory nervous system, Sensory neuron, Sensory systems in fish, Shark, Signal transduction, Simple eye in invertebrates, Snake mackerel, Spectral sensitivity, Stiles–Crawford effect, Sudden acquired retinal degeneration syndrome, Synaptic noise, Tactical light, Tauroursodeoxycholic acid, Tawny owl, Tetrachromacy, Toothed whale, Transduction (physiology), Trichromacy, Troxler's fading, Tupaia (genus), Turtle, Usher syndrome, Vision in fishes, Visual acuity, Visual phototransduction, Visual system, Vitamin A, Whale, X-linked congenital stationary night blindness, 2017 in archosaur paleontology. Expand index (172 more) »
Aardvark
The aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa.
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Adaptation (eye)
In ocular physiology, adaptation is the ability of the eye to adjust to various levels of light.
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Afterimage
An afterimage is an image that continues to appear in one's vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased.
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Anaglyph 3D
Anaglyph 3D is the name given to the stereoscopic 3D effect achieved by means of encoding each eye's image using filters of different (usually chromatically opposite) colors, typically red and cyan.
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Arthur König
Arthur Peter König (September 13, 1856, Krefeld – October 26, 1901, Berlin) devoted his short life to physiological optics.
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Australian Cattle Dog
The Australian Cattle Dog (ACD), or simply Cattle Dog, is a breed of herding dog originally developed in Australia for droving cattle over long distances across rough terrain.
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Averted vision
Averted vision is a technique for viewing faint objects which uses peripheral vision.
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Barreleye
Barreleyes, also known as spook fish (a name also applied to several species of chimaera), are small deep-sea argentiniform fish comprising the family Opisthoproctidae found in tropical-to-temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
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Beluga whale
The beluga whale or white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean.
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Beta adrenergic receptor kinase
Beta adrenergic receptor kinase (also referred to as βARK or BARK) is a serine/threonine intracellular kinase.
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Bird vision
Vision is the most important sense for birds, since good eyesight is essential for safe flight, and this group has a number of adaptations which give visual acuity superior to that of other vertebrate groups; a pigeon has been described as "two eyes with wings".
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Blackmouth catshark
The blackmouth catshark (Galeus melastomus) is a species of catshark, and part of the family Scyliorhinidae, common in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean from Iceland to Senegal, including the Mediterranean Sea.
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Blue cone monochromacy
Blue cone monochromacy (BCM) is an inherited eye disease that causes severely impaired color discrimination, low vision, nystagmus and photophobia due to the absence of functionality of red (L) and green (M) cone photoreceptor cells in the retina.
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Blue iguana
The blue iguana (Cyclura lewisi), also known as the Grand Cayman iguana, Grand Cayman blue iguana or Cayman Island blue iguana, is an endangered species of lizard endemic to the island of Grand Cayman.
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Carbon star
A carbon star is typically an asymptotic giant branch star, a luminous red giant, whose atmosphere contains more carbon than oxygen; the two elements combine in the upper layers of the star, forming carbon monoxide, which consumes all the oxygen in the atmosphere, leaving carbon atoms free to form other carbon compounds, giving the star a "sooty" atmosphere and a strikingly ruby red appearance.
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Cat
The domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus or Felis catus) is a small, typically furry, carnivorous mammal.
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Catfish
Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.
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Chemotaxonomy
Merriam-Webster defines chemotaxonomy as the method of biological classification based on similarities in the structure of certain compounds among the organisms being classified.
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Chroma subsampling
Chroma subsampling is the practice of encoding images by implementing less resolution for chroma information than for luma information, taking advantage of the human visual system's lower acuity for color differences than for luminance.
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CIE 1931 color space
The CIE 1931 color spaces were the first defined quantitative links between distributions of wavelengths in the electromagnetic visible spectrum, and physiologically perceived colors in human color vision.
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Ciliopathy
A ciliopathy is a genetic disorder of the cellular cilia or the cilia anchoring structures, the basal bodies, or of ciliary function.
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Circadian rhythm
A circadian rhythm is any biological process that displays an endogenous, entrainable oscillation of about 24 hours.
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Color
Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the characteristic of human visual perception described through color categories, with names such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple.
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Color appearance model
A color appearance model (abbreviated CAM) is a mathematical model that seeks to describe the perceptual aspects of human color vision, i.e. viewing conditions under which the appearance of a color does not tally with the corresponding physical measurement of the stimulus source.
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Color balance
In photography and image processing, color balance is the global adjustment of the intensities of the colors (typically red, green, and blue primary colors).
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Color blindness
Color blindness, also known as color vision deficiency, is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color.
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Color constancy
Color constancy is an example of subjective constancy and a feature of the human color perception system which ensures that the perceived color of objects remains relatively constant under varying illumination conditions.
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Color television
Color/Colour television is a television transmission technology that includes information on the color of the picture, so the video image can be displayed in color on the television set.
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Color vision
Color vision is the ability of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths (or frequencies) of the light they reflect, emit, or transmit.
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Comephorus
Comephorus, known as the golomyankas or Baikal oilfish, are a genus comprising two species of peculiar, sculpin fishes endemic to Lake Baikal in Russia.
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Common degu
The common degu (Octodon degus) is a small caviomorph rodent endemic to the Chilean matorral ecoregion of central Chile.
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Cone cell
Cone cells, or cones, are one of three types of photoreceptor cells in the retina of mammalian eyes (e.g. the human eye).
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Congenital disorder of glycosylation
A congenital disorder of glycosylation (previously called carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndrome) is one of several rare inborn errors of metabolism in which glycosylation of a variety of tissue proteins and/or lipids is deficient or defective.
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Convergence micropsia
Convergence micropsia is a type of micropsia characterized by the reduction in apparent size of objects viewed when the eyes are more converged than they need to be for the distance of the object from the eyes.
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Crocodile
Crocodiles (subfamily Crocodylinae) or true crocodiles are large aquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.
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Cyanopsia
Cyanopsia is a medical term for seeing everything tinted with blue.
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Cyclic nucleotide
A cyclic nucleotide (cNMP) is a single-phosphate nucleotide with a cyclic bond arrangement between the sugar and phosphate groups.
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Cyclic nucleotide–gated ion channel
Cyclic nucleotide–gated ion channels or CNG channels are ion channels that function in response to the binding of cyclic nucleotides.
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Cyclura nubila
The Cuban rock iguana (Cyclura nubila), also known as the Cuban ground iguana or Cuban iguana, is a species of lizard of the iguana family.
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Cyclura ricordi
Cyclura ricordi, commonly known as the Hispaniolan ground iguana, Ricord's ground iguana, Ricord's iguana, or Ricord's rock iguana, is a critically endangered species of rock iguana.
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Dark adaptor goggles
Dark adaptor goggles, also called red adaptation goggles, are used in the field of meteorology and astronomy for adapting the eyes to the dark prior to an observation at night.
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Deep sea
The deep sea or deep layer is the lowest layer in the ocean, existing below the thermocline and above the seabed, at a depth of 1000 fathoms (1800 m) or more.
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Deep sea fish
Deep-sea fish are fish that live in the darkness below the sunlit surface waters, that is below the epipelagic or photic zone of the sea.
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Depolarization
In biology, depolarization is a change within a cell, during which the cell undergoes a shift in electric charge distribution, resulting in less negative charge inside the cell.
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Diabetic retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy, also known as diabetic eye disease, is a medical condition in which damage occurs to the retina due to diabetes mellitus.
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Disc shedding
Disc shedding is the process by which photoreceptors in the eye are renewed.
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Discworld (world)
The Discworld is the fictional setting for all of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy novels.
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Diversity of fish
Fish are very diverse animals and can be categorised in many ways.
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Dog anatomy
Dog anatomy comprises the anatomical studies of the visible parts of the body of a canine.
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Dolphin
Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of aquatic mammals.
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Dopamine
Dopamine (DA, a contraction of 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) is an organic chemical of the catecholamine and phenethylamine families that plays several important roles in the brain and body.
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Double Vision (1971 film)
Double Vision is one of the earliest and best known video works by American (born 1937) artist Peter Campus.
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Duplex retina
A duplex retina is a retina consisting of both rod cells and cone cells.
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Dynamic range
Dynamic range, abbreviated DR, DNR, or DYR is the ratio between the largest and smallest values that a certain quantity can assume.
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Eagle eye
The eagle eye is among the strongest in the animal kingdom, with an eyesight estimated at 4 to 8 times stronger than that of the average human.
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Eastern shovelnose ray
The eastern shovelnose ray (Aptychotrema rostrata) is a species of guitarfish, family Rhinobatidae.
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Eccentricity effect
The eccentricity effect is a visual phenomenon that affects target processing.
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Edmund Landolt
Landolt, Edmund, (17 May 1846 – 9 May 1926) was a Swiss ophthalmologist stationed in Paris, mostly known for a wide range of publications and his research in the field of ophthalmology.
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Eigengrau
Eigengrau (German: "intrinsic gray", "own gray"), also called Eigenlicht (Dutch and German: "own light"), dark light, or brain gray, is the uniform dark gray background that many people report seeing in the absence of light.
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Electroretinography
Electroretinography measures the electrical responses of various cell types in the retina, including the photoreceptors (rods and cones), inner retinal cells (bipolar and amacrine cells), and the ganglion cells.
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Epiretinal membrane
Epiretinal membrane is a disease of the eye in response to changes in the vitreous humor or more rarely, diabetes.
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Equine vision
The equine eye is the one of the largest of any land mammal.
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European mole
The European mole (Talpa europaea) is a mammal of the order Eulipotyphla.
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European nightjar
The European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus), Eurasian nightjar or just nightjar, is a crepuscular and nocturnal bird in the nightjar family that breeds across most of Europe and temperate Asia.
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Evolution of human colour vision
Evolution of human colour vision over time: humans (homo sapiens) have developed a trichromatic view of the world in comparison to a majority of other mammals that only see the world from a dichromatic view.
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Exit sign
An exit sign is a device in a public facility (such as a building, aircraft or boat) denoting the location of the closest emergency exit in case of fire or other emergency.
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External limiting membrane
The external limiting membrane (or outer limiting membrane) is one of the ten distinct layers of the retina of the eye.
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Eye
Eyes are organs of the visual system.
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Felidae
The biological family Felidae is a lineage of carnivorans colloquially referred to as cats.
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Field of view
The field of view is the extent of the observable world that is seen at any given moment.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Fish anatomy
Fish anatomy is the study of the form or morphology of fishes.
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Fish physiology
Fish physiology is the scientific study of how the component parts of fish function together in the living fish.
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Flicker fusion threshold
The flicker fusion threshold (or flicker fusion rate) is a concept in the psychophysics of vision.
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Fovea centralis
The fovea centralis is a small, central pit composed of closely packed cones in the eye.
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Franz Christian Boll
Franz Boll (February 26, 1849, Neubrandenburg – December 19, 1879, Rome) was a German physiologist and histologist.
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FVB Mice
FVB is an albino, inbred mouse strain that is named after its susceptibility to Friend leukemia virus B.
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G beta-gamma complex
The G beta-gamma complex (Gβγ) is a tightly bound dimeric protein complex, composed of one Gβ and one Gγ subunit, and is a component of heterotrimeric G proteins.
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Gene therapy of the human retina
Retinal gene therapy holds a promise in treating different forms of non-inherited and inherited blindness.
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Genetic drift
Genetic drift (also known as allelic drift or the Sewall Wright effect) is the change in the frequency of an existing gene variant (allele) in a population due to random sampling of organisms.
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George Wald
George David Wald (November 18, 1906 – April 12, 1997) was an American scientist who studied pigments in the retina.
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Giant retinal ganglion cells
Giant retinal ganglion cells are photosensitive ganglion cells with large dendritic trees discovered in the human and macaque retina by Dacey et al.
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Gordon Lynn Walls
Gordon Lynn Walls (April 4, 1905 - August 22, 1962) was an American professor of physiological optics and optometry at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Green iguana
The green iguana (Iguana iguana), also known as the American iguana, is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana.
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Gustducin
Gustducin is a G protein associated with taste and the gustatory system, found in some taste receptor cells.
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Heinrich Müller (physiologist)
Heinrich Müller (17 December 1820 – 10 May 1864) was a German anatomist and professor at the University of Würzburg.
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Hemeralopia
Hemeralopia (from Greek ημέρα hemera, "day", and αλαός alaos, "blindness") is the inability to see clearly in bright light and is the exact opposite of nyctalopia (night blindness), the inability to see clearly in low light.
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Horseshoe crab
Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods of the family Limulidae, suborder Xiphosurida, and order Xiphosura.
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Human eye
The human eye is an organ which reacts to light and pressure.
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Hydrophiinae
The Hydrophiinae, commonly known as sea snakes or coral reef snakes, are a subfamily of venomous elapid snakes that inhabit marine environments for most or all of their lives.
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Iconic memory
Iconic memory is the visual sensory memory (SM) register pertaining to the visual domain and a fast-decaying store of visual information.
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Ignacio Provencio
Ignacio Provencio (born 29 June 1965) is an American neuroscientist and the discoverer of melanopsin, a photopigment found in specialized photosensitive ganglion cells of the mammalian retina.
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Index of anatomy articles
Articles related to anatomy include.
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Index of biochemistry articles
Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living organisms.
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Infant visual development
Infant vision concerns the development of visual ability in human infants from birth through the first years of life.
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Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells
Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), also called photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (pRGC), or melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cells (mRGCs), are a type of neuron in the retina of the mammalian eye.
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Irlen syndrome
Irlen syndrome, occasionally referred to as scotopic sensitivity syndrome (SSS) or Meares-Irlen syndrome, very rarely as asfedia, and recently also as visual stress, is a proposed disorder of vision.
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Johannes von Kries
Johannes Adolf von Kries (6 October 1853, Roggenhausen – 30 December 1928, Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German physiological psychologist who formulated the modern “duplicity” or “duplexity” theory of vision mediated by rod cells at low light levels and three types of cone cells at higher light levels.
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John Kay (musician)
John Kay (born Joachim Fritz Krauledat, 12 April 1944) is a German-Canadian rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist known as the frontman of Steppenwolf.
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King-Wai Yau
King-Wai Yau (Chinese: 游景威; Pinyin: You Jing-Wei; born October 27, 1948) is a Chinese-born American neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Knobloch syndrome
Knobloch syndrome is a rare genetic disorder presenting severe eyesight problems and often a defect in the skull.
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Kruithof curve
The Kruithof curve describes a region of illuminance levels and color temperatures that are often viewed as comfortable or pleasing to an observer.
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Lancelet
The lancelets — also known as amphioxi (singular, amphioxus) consist of about 32 species of fish-like marine chordates in the order Amphioxiformes.
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Lateral inhibition
In neurobiology, lateral inhibition is the capacity of an excited neuron to reduce the activity of its neighbors.
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Latimeria
Latimeria is a rare genus of fish that includes two extant species: West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) and the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis).
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Layer of rods and cones
The elements composing the Layer of Rods and Cones (Jacob’s membrane) in the retina of the eye are of two kinds, rod cells and cone cells, the former being much more numerous than the latter except in the macula lutea.
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Lemur
Lemurs are a clade of strepsirrhine primates endemic to the island of Madagascar.
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Leopard complex
The leopard complex is a group of genetically related coat patterns in horses.
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Light
Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Lilac chaser
The lilac chaser is a visual illusion, also known as the Pac-Man illusion.
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List of distinct cell types in the adult human body
There are many different types of cell in the human body.
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List of MeSH codes (A08)
The following is a list of the "A" codes for MeSH.
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List of MeSH codes (A09)
The following is a list of the "A" codes for MeSH.
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List of MeSH codes (A11)
The following is a list of the "A" codes for MeSH.
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Low vision assessment
Low vision is both a subspeciality and a condition.
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Macula of retina
The macula or macula lutea is an oval-shaped pigmented area near the center of the retina of the human eye and some other animalian eyes.
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Mammalian eye
Mammals normally have a pair of eyes.
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Melanin
Melanin (from μέλας melas, "black, dark") is a broad term for a group of natural pigments found in most organisms.
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Melanopsin
Melanopsin is a type of photopigment belonging to a larger family of light-sensitive retinal proteins called opsins and encoded by the gene Opn4.
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Mesopic vision
Mesopic vision is a combination of photopic vision and scotopic vision in low but not quite dark lighting situations.
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Microbial rhodopsin
Microbial rhodopsin, also known as type-I rhodopsin, is a photochemically active membrane protein composed of seven transmembrane alpha-helices with a retinal chromophore.
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Microevolution
Microevolution is the change in allele frequencies that occurs over time within a population.
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Miosis
Miosis is excessive constriction of the pupil.
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Misha Mahowald
Michelle Anne Mahowald (January 12, 1963 – December 26, 1996) was an American computational neuroscientist in the emerging field of neuromorphic engineering.
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Mitochondrial optic neuropathies
Mitohondrial optic neuropathies are a heterogenous group of disorders that present with visual disturbances resultant from mitochondrial dysfunction within the anatomy of the Retinal Ganglion Cells (RGC), optic nerve, optic chiasm, and optic tract.
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Monochromacy
Monochromacy (from Greek mono, meaning "one "and chromo, meaning "color") is the ability of organisms or machines to distinguish only one single frequency of the electromagnetic light spectrum.
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Movie projector
A movie projector is an opto-mechanical device for displaying motion picture film by projecting it onto a screen.
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Muller glia
Müller glia, or Müller cells, are a type of retinal glial cells, first recognized and described by Heinrich Müller.
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Mutation
In biology, a mutation is the permanent alteration of the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA or other genetic elements.
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Night sky
The term night sky, usually associated with astronomy from Earth, refers to the nighttime appearance of celestial objects like stars, planets, and the Moon, which are visible in a clear sky between sunset and sunrise, when the Sun is below the horizon.
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Night vision
Night vision is the ability to see in low-light conditions.
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Nutritional neuroscience
Nutritional neuroscience is the scientific discipline that studies the effects various components of the diet such as minerals, vitamins, protein, carbohydrates, fats, dietary supplements, synthetic hormones, and food additives have on neurochemistry, neurobiology, behavior, and cognition.
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Nyctalopia
Nyctalopia, also called night-blindness, is a condition making it difficult or impossible to see in relatively low light.
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Oceanic dolphin
Oceanic dolphins or Delphinidae are a widely distributed family of dolphins that live in the sea.
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Oguchi disease
Oguchi disease, also called congenital stationary night blindness, Oguchi type 1 or Oguchi disease 1, is an autosomal recessive form of congenital stationary night blindness associated with fundus discoloration and abnormally slow dark adaptation.
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Oil droplet
Oil droplets are found in the eyes of some animals, being located in the photoreceptor cells.
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Oilbird
The oilbird (Steatornis caripensis), locally known as the guácharo, is a bird species found in the northern areas of South America including the island of Trinidad.
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Okapi
The okapi (Okapia johnstoni), also known as the forest giraffe, congolese giraffe or zebra giraffe, is an artiodactyl mammal native to the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa.
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OPN1LW
OPN1LW is a gene on the X chromosome that encodes for long wave sensitive (LWS) opsin, or red cone photopigment.
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Opponent process
The color opponent process is a color theory that states that the human visual system interprets information about color by processing signals from cones and rods in an antagonistic manner.
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Opsin
Opsins are a group of proteins, made light-sensitive, via the chromophore retinal found in photoreceptor cells of the retina.
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Optic disc
The optic disc or optic nerve head is the point of exit for ganglion cell axons leaving the eye.
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Optic disc drusen
Optic disc drusen (ODD) or optic nerve head drusen (ONHD) are globules of mucoproteins and mucopolysaccharides that progressively calcify in the optic disc.
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Optical phenomena
Optical phenomena are any observable events that result from the interaction of light and matter.
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Optics and vision
Visual perception is the ability to interpret information and surroundings from visible light reaching the eye.
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Orchestrated objective reduction
Orchestrated objective reduction (Orch-OR) is a hypothesis that consciousness in the brain originates from processes inside neurons, rather than from connections between neurons (the conventional view).
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Outer plexiform layer
The outer plexiform layer (external plexiform layer) is a layer of neuronal synapses in the retina of the eye.
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Parasol cell
A parasol cell, sometimes called an M cell or M ganglion cell, is one type of retinal ganglion cell located in the ganglion cell layer of the retina.
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Parietal eye
A parietal eye, also known as a third eye or pineal eye, is a part of the epithalamus present in some animal species.
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PDE6A
Rod cGMP-specific 3',5'-cyclic phosphodiesterase subunit alpha is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PDE6A gene.
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PDE6B
Rod cGMP-specific 3',5'-cyclic phosphodiesterase subunit beta is the beta subunit of the protein complex PDE6 that is encoded by the PDE6B gene.
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PDE6D
Retinal rod rhodopsin-sensitive cGMP 3',5'-cyclic phosphodiesterase subunit delta is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PDE6D gene.
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Pelagic fish
Pelagic fish live in the pelagic zone of ocean or lake waters – being neither close to the bottom nor near the shore – in contrast with demersal fish, which do live on or near the bottom, and reef fish, which are associated with coral reefs.
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Perception
Perception (from the Latin perceptio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information, or the environment.
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Peripheral vision
Peripheral vision is a part of vision that occurs only on the side gaze.
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Photopigment
Photopigments are unstable pigments that undergo a chemical change when they absorb light.
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Photoreceptor cell
A photoreceptor cell is a specialized type of neuroepithelial cell found in the retina that is capable of visual phototransduction.
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Photoreceptor protein
Photoreceptor proteins are light-sensitive proteins involved in the sensing and response to light in a variety of organisms.
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Pinniped
Pinnipeds, commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals.
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Platynereis dumerilii
Platynereis dumerilii is a species of annelids.
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Porpoise
Porpoises are a group of fully aquatic marine mammals that are sometimes referred to as mereswine, all of which are classified under the family Phocoenidae, parvorder Odontoceti (toothed whales).
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Primary color
A set of primary colors is, most tangibly, a set of real colorants or colored lights that can be combined in varying amounts to produce a gamut of colors.
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Prosimian
Prosimians are a group of primates that includes all living and extinct strepsirrhines (lemurs, lorisoids, and adapiforms), as well as the haplorhine tarsiers and their extinct relatives, the omomyiforms, i.e. all primates excluding the simians.
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Pteropus
Bats of the genus Pteropus (suborder Yinpterochiroptera) are among the largest bats in the world.
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Purkinje effect
The Purkinje effect (sometimes called the Purkinje shift) is the tendency for the peak luminance sensitivity of the human eye to shift toward the blue end of the color spectrum at low illumination levels as part of dark adaptation.
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Rattlesnake
Rattlesnakes are a group of venomous snakes of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers).
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Rayleigh scattering
Rayleigh scattering (pronounced), named after the British physicist Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt), is the (dominantly) elastic scattering of light or other electromagnetic radiation by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation.
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Receptive field
The receptive field of an individual sensory neuron is the particular region of the sensory space (e.g., the body surface, or the visual field) in which a stimulus will modify the firing of that neuron.
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Red
Red is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.
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Retina
The retina is the innermost, light-sensitive "coat", or layer, of shell tissue of the eye of most vertebrates and some molluscs.
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Retina bipolar cell
As a part of the retina, bipolar cells exist between photoreceptors (rod cells and cone cells) and ganglion cells.
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Retinal
Retinal is also known as retinaldehyde.
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Retinal degeneration (rhodopsin mutation)
Retinal degeneration is a retinopathy which consists in the deterioration of the retina caused by the progressive death of its cells.
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Retinal G protein coupled receptor
RPE-retinal G protein-coupled receptor also known as RGR-opsin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RGR gene.
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Retinal ganglion cell
A retinal ganglion cell (RGC) is a type of neuron located near the inner surface (the ganglion cell layer) of the retina of the eye.
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Retinal pigment epithelium
The pigmented layer of retina or retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is the pigmented cell layer just outside the neurosensory retina that nourishes retinal visual cells, and is firmly attached to the underlying choroid and overlying retinal visual cells.
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Retinal precursor cells
Retinal precursor cells are biological cells that differentiate into the various cell types of the retina during development.
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Retinal regeneration
Retinal regeneration refers to the restoration of vision in vertebrates that have suffered retinal lesions or retinal degeneration.
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Retinal waves
Retinal waves are spontaneous bursts of action potentials that propagate in a wave-like fashion across the developing retina.
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Retinitis pigmentosa
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetic disorder of the eyes that causes loss of vision.
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Retinol dehydrogenase
In enzymology, a retinol dehydrogenase (RDH) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction Sometimes, in addition to or along with NAD+, NADP+ can act as a preferred cofactor in the reaction as well.
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Retinylidene protein
Retinylidene protein, is a family of proteins that use retinal as a chromophore for light reception.
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Rhodopsin
Rhodopsin (also known as visual purple) is a light-sensitive receptor protein involved in visual phototransduction.
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River dolphin
River dolphins are a group of fully aquatic mammals that reside exclusively in freshwater or brackish water.
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Rod
Rod, Ród, Rőd, Rød, Röd, ROD, or R.O.D. may refer to.
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Ros
Ros or ROS may refer to.
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RPE65
Retinal pigment epithelium-specific 65 kDa protein, also known as retinoid isomerohydrolase, is an enzyme of the vertebrate visual cycle that is encoded in humans by the RPE65 gene.
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Russell Foster
Russell Grant Foster, CBE, FRS FMedSci (born 1959) is a British professor of circadian neuroscience, the Director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the Head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi).
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Science
R. P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol.1, Chaps.1,2,&3.
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Scotopic vision
Scotopic vision is the vision of the eye under low-light levels.
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Sense
A sense is a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception.
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Sensory nervous system
The sensory nervous system is a part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information.
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Sensory neuron
Sensory neurons also known as afferent neurons are neurons that convert a specific type of stimulus, via their receptors, into action potentials or graded potentials.
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Sensory systems in fish
Most fish possess highly developed sense organs.
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Shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.
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Signal transduction
Signal transduction is the process by which a chemical or physical signal is transmitted through a cell as a series of molecular events, most commonly protein phosphorylation catalyzed by protein kinases, which ultimately results in a cellular response.
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Simple eye in invertebrates
A simple eye (sometimes called a pigment pit) refers to a type of eye form or optical arrangement that contains a single lens.
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Snake mackerel
The snake mackerel (Gempylus serpens) is a species of fish in the monotypic genus Gempylus, belonging to the family Gempylidae (which is also referred to generally as "snake mackerels").
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Spectral sensitivity
Spectral sensitivity is the relative efficiency of detection, of light or other signal, as a function of the frequency or wavelength of the signal.
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Stiles–Crawford effect
The Stiles–Crawford effect (subdivided into the Stiles–Crawford effect of the first and second kind) is a property of the human eye that refers to the directional sensitivity of the cone photoreceptors.
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Sudden acquired retinal degeneration syndrome
Sudden acquired retinal degeneration syndrome (SARDS) is a disease in dogs causing sudden blindness.
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Synaptic noise
Synaptic noise refers to the constant bombardment of synaptic activity in neurons.
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Tactical light
A tactical light is a flashlight used in conjunction with a firearm to aid low-light target identification, allowing the marksman, law enforcement officer or soldier to simultaneously aim a weapon and illuminate the target.
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Tauroursodeoxycholic acid
Tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA) is an ambiphilic bile acid.
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Tawny owl
The tawny owl or brown owl (Strix aluco) is a stocky, medium-sized owl commonly found in woodlands across much of Eurasia.
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Tetrachromacy
Tetrachromacy is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four types of cone cells in the eye.
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Toothed whale
The toothed whales (systematic name Odontoceti) are a parvorder of cetaceans that includes dolphins, porpoises, and all other whales possessing teeth, such as the beaked whales and sperm whales.
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Transduction (physiology)
In physiology, sensory transduction is the conversion of a sensory stimulus from one form to another.
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Trichromacy
Trichromacy or trichromatism is the possessing of three independent channels for conveying color information, derived from the three different types of cone cells in the eye.
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Troxler's fading
Troxler's fading, or Troxler fading, or the Troxler effect, is an optical illusion affecting visual perception.
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Tupaia (genus)
Tupaia is a treeshrew genus in the family Tupaiidae that was first described by Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1821.
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Turtle
Turtles are diapsids of the order Testudines (or Chelonii) characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield.
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Usher syndrome
Usher syndrome, also known as Hallgren syndrome, Usher-Hallgren syndrome, retinitis pigmentosa-dysacusis syndrome, or dystrophia retinae dysacusis syndrome, is a rare genetic disorder caused by a mutation in any one of at least 11 genes resulting in a combination of hearing loss and visual impairment.
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Vision in fishes
Vision is an important sensory system for most species of fish.
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Visual acuity
Visual acuity (VA) commonly refers to the clarity of vision.
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Visual phototransduction
Visual phototransduction is the sensory transduction of the visual system.
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Visual system
The visual system is the part of the central nervous system which gives organisms the ability to process visual detail, as well as enabling the formation of several non-image photo response functions.
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Vitamin A
Vitamin A is a group of unsaturated nutritional organic compounds that includes retinol, retinal, retinoic acid, and several provitamin A carotenoids (most notably beta-carotene).
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Whale
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.
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X-linked congenital stationary night blindness
X-linked congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) is a rare X-linked non-progressive retinal disorder.
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2017 in archosaur paleontology
The year 2017 in archosaur paleontology was eventful.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_cell
