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
• My wife swore to get the spot on her retina checked again.
  — Pardeep Toor, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2022
• In normal vision, light hits the retina at the back of the eye.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 24 May 2021
• But the retina, which lies between the two, no longer works.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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 lens bends the light rays, focusing them to form an image on the retina.
  — Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• 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
• 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 uvea is the middle layer of the eye between the sclera (white part) and the retina (the light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye).
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023
• If your eyes can’t do that on their own, and the focal point is off the surface of the retina, your vision is blurry.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• The retina, a very sensitive part of our eye, is at risk during these events.
  — George Dvorsky / Gizmodo, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• The ability to see in low-light conditions involves two structures in the eye: the retina and the iris.
  — Matthew Solan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• Shining a light through the pupil creates scar tissue that the retina can reattach to.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
• The retina, located in the back of the eye, contains two types of light-detecting cells called cones and rods.
  — Matthew Solan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• Light focuses on the front of the retina and makes distant objects seem fuzzy.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2023
• The part of the eye that changes color is the tapetum lucidum, a layer of tissue found behind the retina.
  — Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2021
• The first layer of neurons in the retina are the photoreceptors.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• The pupil is actually a hole through which light passes to the retina, the light-sensitive layer in the back part of the eye.
  — Troy Bedinghaus, Od, Verywell Health, 17 July 2023
• Sight begins when light passes through the cornea and lens and hits neurons called photoreceptors that live in the retina in the back of the eye.
  — Ron Winslow, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2022
• Floaters are bits of protein in the jelly-like fluid in the back of the eye, called the vitreous humor, which cast a shadow on the retina.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2023
• In both conditions, damage to the retina can lead to vision loss.
  — Sonya Collins, Fortune Well, 23 Feb. 2023
• The lens at the very front of the eye focuses light from the environment onto a thin layer of tissue called the retina in the back.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
• In both of these cases, not enough blood is getting to the central nervous system (the brain, the spinal cord and the retinas), which can lead to cell death -- the hallmark of a stroke.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 31 July 2023
• In rare cases, the cysts may float in the eye and cause blurry or disturbed vision, eye swelling, or detachment of the retina.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• In simple terms, the eyes of people with myopia aren’t able to focus light rays correctly on the retina.
  — Charlie Grinnell, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• The movie, though a frantic treat for the retina, is also oddly inactive.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024