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  • noun A plural form of retina.

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Examples

  • And it may be possible to give some capacity for vision, but also people are using artificial retinas, which is similar to sort of cochlear implants, although this is very early yet.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • And it may be possible to give some capacity for vision, but also people are using artificial retinas, which is similar to sort of cochlear implants, although this is very early yet.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • The visual system comprises not just the retinas in our eyes, but many 'retinas' located throughout the brain, each of which 'sees' the world differently but all coming together into a coherent vision in the primary visual cortex.

    Forbes.com: News John Farrell 2011

  • The next thing that seems to merit our attention, is, to inquire, whether this correspondence between certain points of the two retinas which is necessary to single vision, is the effect of custom, or an original property of the human eyes.

    Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784

  • In his show at Blum and Poe, Los Angeles painter Henry Taylor rattled our nerves and retinas with gritty images of downtown denizens captured by him so colorfully, so mercilessly, but ultimately, so lovingly on his large canvases.

    Edward Goldman: Magnificent Seven From the Year 2011 Edward Goldman 2011

  • In his show at Blum and Poe, Los Angeles painter Henry Taylor rattled our nerves and retinas with gritty images of downtown denizens captured by him so colorfully, so mercilessly, but ultimately, so lovingly on his large canvases.

    Edward Goldman: Magnificent Seven From the Year 2011 Edward Goldman 2011

  • May 14, 2010 2: 16 PM lora96 said ... my poor retinas will never be the same, scorched as they are by the horrendous and repulsive cover art. which sort of reader are they trying to attract? lantern-jawed gentlemen with massive glowing winkies??

    Happy Friday, Author-Friends 2010

  • In his show at Blum and Poe, Los Angeles painter Henry Taylor rattled our nerves and retinas with gritty images of downtown denizens captured by him so colorfully, so mercilessly, but ultimately, so lovingly on his large canvases.

    Edward Goldman: Magnificent Seven From the Year 2011 Edward Goldman 2011

  • It was the final splash of light on his retinas, probably arriving too late for his brain to process before being vaporized with the rest of his corporeal frame.

    The Last Ace 2009

  • In his show at Blum and Poe, Los Angeles painter Henry Taylor rattled our nerves and retinas with gritty images of downtown denizens captured by him so colorfully, so mercilessly, but ultimately, so lovingly on his large canvases.

    Edward Goldman: Magnificent Seven From the Year 2011 Edward Goldman 2011

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