Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A persistent image formed on the retina by the bleaching of the visual purple. It may be made permanent by immediately immersing the retina in a solution of potash alum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physiol.) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple. See optography.

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  • noun physiology An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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  • Image fixed on the retina. (from Phrontistery)

    May 25, 2008