photoreceptor
photoreceptor
Definition
photo·recep·tor (fōt′ō ri sep′tər)
noun
Biol. a sense organ specialized to detect light, as the eye or any of the elements of a compound eye
photoreceptor
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- call: Tiny light sensitive patches called photoreceptors cover the back of the eye.
- use: Birds perceive day length using photoreceptors in the brain integrated with their circadian clock.
Noun used with modifier
- cone: These children may mainly have a problem with their cone photoreceptors.
- rod: These children might mainly have a problem mainly with their rod photoreceptors.
- melanopsin: We now know that this synchronization is largely dependent upon these blue light sensitive melanopsin photoreceptors, " he added.
- blue-light: Since Neurospora has a blue-light photoreceptor the clock in Neurospora " sees " white or blue light but does not perceive red light.
Adjective modifier
- retinal: Our perception of color arises from the presence of three types of retinal photoreceptors ( cones ) sensitive to different wavelengths of light.
- blue: We now know that this synchronization is largely dependent upon these blue light sensitive melanopsin photoreceptors, " he added.
- human: The temporal properties of the human short-wave photoreceptors and their associated pathways.
- sensitive: We now know that this synchronization is largely dependent upon these blue light sensitive melanopsin photoreceptors, " he added.
- light: We now know that this synchronization is largely dependent upon these blue light sensitive melanopsin photoreceptors, " he added.
- different: The different plant photoreceptors for red and blue lights.
Modifies a noun
- cell: Where the optic nerve attaches to the retina, no photoreceptor cells ( cones or rods ) are present.
- protein: My postgraduate research in Robert Molday's laboratory was to investigate the function of bovine retinal rod photoreceptor proteins in the phototransduction process.
- system: However, studies over the past decade have provided the substrate for the heretical view that the mammalian eye contains a novel photoreceptor system.
- response: As their main source, the results suggest specific properties of the photoreceptor response and a specialized amacrine cell circuit in the inner retina.
- differentiation: We are interested in identifying cellular pathways that are involved in photoreceptor differentiation, function and degeneration.
- molecule: These disks contain thousands of molecules of rhodopsin, the photoreceptor molecule.
Preposition: in
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