How to Use retina in a Sentence

retina

noun

• In this method, the retina is scanned with a beam of light.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• The cornea's function is to focus light on the retina at the back of the eye.
  — Author: Roni Caryn Rabin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2018
• The cornea’s function is to focus light on the retina at the back of the eye.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2018
• The buckle will help to reattach the retina to the surface of the eye.
  — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• My wife swore to get the spot on her retina checked again.
  — Pardeep Toor, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2022
• Would the person then sense light on both sides of the retina?
  — Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2018
• In normal vision, light hits the retina at the back of the eye.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 24 May 2021
• Cells in the retina send signals to the brain via the optic nerve.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2018
• But the retina, which lies between the two, no longer works.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 May 2021
• The retina has two types of light-sensing cells: rods and cones.
  — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2020
• But why Poor’s retina, and not that of any of his colleagues?
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
• When the stream of photons struck the retina, neurons fired.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• Plus, the retina display makes reading the screen at a glance easy.
  — Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2024
• As the disease progressed, the rod cells around the edges of my retina would die, followed by the cones.
  — Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
• These are the light-sensing cells that line your retina, the back part of your eyeball.
  — Mark D. Fairchild, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2019
• In this man’s eye, the edge seemed blurry and the flat screen of the retina seemed to bulge forward around the fuzzy circle.
  — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 16 June 2021
• The retina is a layer of light-sensitive tissue in the back of the eye.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2018
• The lens bends the light rays, focusing them to form an image on the retina.
  — Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• Light enters the front of the eye and is focused onto a structure at the back called the retina.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2024
• The blast left the front part of Northup's eye deformed, damaging the cornea and bruising the retina.
  — Ashley Welch, CBS News, 29 June 2018
• The damage on her left retina, the area at the back of the eye where the brain receives images, looked like the shape of a partial eclipse.
  — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2024
• Now that image will be burned in your retinas all week.
  — Ray Hamel, Slate Magazine, 2 Mar. 2018
• Patterns of light falling on the retina send signals to the visual cortex in the back of the brain.
  — Elizabeth Finkel, Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023
• The retina is the light-detecting part of your eye that transmits those signals to the brain.
  — Jason Rossi, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2024
• There are many different kinds of cells in the retina of a human eye.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2023
• The microLED film sits on the retina and moves with the eye for constant pixel-to-cell mapping.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
• The back of the eye, called the retina, has a delicate central area known as the macula.
  — Time, 26 Aug. 2019
• The world casts its light through the cornea and lens and onto the retina, a paper-thin mask of tissue at the back of the eye made of the same cells that make up the brain.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018
• The focus of those wavelengths that enter the eye and travel through all its optical components needs to coincide on the retina.
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
• These carotenoids specifically accumulate in a part of the retina called the macula.
  — Jillian Kubala, Health, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024