Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small cuplike depression or pit in a bone or organ.
- noun The fovea centralis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy and zoology, a depression or shallow pit in a surface, generally more or less rounded.
- noun In botany, a depression or pit; especially, a depression on the upper surface of the leaf-sheath in Isoetes, in which the sporangium is formed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A slight depression or pit; a fossa.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
- noun anatomy The
retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible forsharp centralvision .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun area consisting of a small depression in the retina containing cones and where vision is most acute
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For one, the eye takes in a limited amount of high-quality information through a part of the eye called the fovea, which is supplemented with lower-quality info as needed.
You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008
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For one, the eye takes in a limited amount of high-quality information through a part of the eye called the fovea, which is supplemented with lower-quality info as needed.
You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008
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The central part of the retina where our vision is focused most is called the fovea.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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The central part of the retina where our vision is focused most is called the fovea.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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The central part of the retina where our vision is focused most is called the fovea.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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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 Sy Montgomery 2010
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When you look at a close object, you have to turn in your two eyes so that the image that you're looking at falls on the central part of the retina, called the fovea, of the two eyes.
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When you look at a close object, you have to turn in your two eyes so that the image that you're looking at falls on the central part of the retina, called the fovea, of the two eyes.
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The fovea is a cute trick to squeeze greater acuity out of a flawed design, but octopi and squid do it better.
Denton vs Squid; the eye as suboptimal design. - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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This part of the retina is called fovea centralis.
2. Elements Frank Ponemunski 1991
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