Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small fovea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy and zoology, a slight pit or depression found at the summits of the papillœ of the kidney, at the bottom of which are the mouths of the uriniferous tubules.
- noun In botany, in the leaves of Isoetes, above the fovea, a small depression out ofwhich the ligule springs.
- noun In entomology, a small fovea, or rounded impressed spaces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small depression or pit; a fovea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The center of the
fovea in themacula of theeye , approximately 0.35 mm in diameter, containing only cone cells.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Median foveola: in Orthoptera; the foveate depression of the vertex between the eyes: = central foveola.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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One of these giant cells may be found lying in a Howships foveola at the free end of each spicule.
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He addresses the claim that the blind spot is bad design, by pointing out that the blind spot occupies only 0. 25% of the visual field, and is far (15°) from the visual axis so that the visual acuity of the region is only about 15% of the foveola, the most sensitive area of the retina right on the visual axis.
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He addresses the claim that the blind spot is bad design, by pointing out that the blind spot occupies only 0. 25% of the visual field, and is far (15°) from the visual axis so that the visual acuity of the region is only about 15% of the foveola, the most sensitive area of the retina right on the visual axis.
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He addresses the claim that the blind spot is bad design, by pointing out that the blind spot occupies only 0. 25% of the visual field, and is far (15°) from the visual axis so that the visual acuity of the region is only about 15% of the foveola, the most sensitive area of the retina right on the visual axis.
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He addresses the claim that the blind spot is bad design, by pointing out that the blind spot occupies only 0. 25% of the visual field, and is far (15°) from the visual axis so that the visual acuity of the region is only about 15% of the foveola, the most sensitive area of the retina right on the visual axis.
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He addresses the claim that the blind spot is bad design, by pointing out that the blind spot occupies only 0. 25% of the visual field, and is far (15°) from the visual axis so that the visual acuity of the region is only about 15% of the foveola, the most sensitive area of the retina right on the visual axis.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Ssmith12 2009
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He addresses the claim that the blind spot is bad design, by pointing out that the blind spot occupies only 0. 25% of the visual field, and is far (15°) from the visual axis so that the visual acuity of the region is only about 15% of the foveola, the most sensitive area of the retina right on the visual axis.
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He addresses the claim that the blind spot is bad design, by pointing out that the blind spot occupies only 0. 25% of the visual field, and is far (15°) from the visual axis so that the visual acuity of the region is only about 15% of the foveola, the most sensitive area of the retina right on the visual axis.
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