How to Use retinal in a Sentence

retinal

adjective
  • Don’t pair, say, a retinal serum with a night cream that has retinol in it.
    Danielle Blundell, Women's Health, 13 June 2023
  • There are over 260 genes in which a mutation can give rise to retinal problems.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 8 May 2018
  • The numbers correspond to the amount of retinal in the product’s formula.
    Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 4 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a huge community of us who are 60-plus and at risk for retinal diseases.
    Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The Peach & Lily retinal is actually mid-range at just $55.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The team focused specifically on neurons at the back of the eye called retinal ganglion cells.
    Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 2 Dec. 2020
  • So, the researchers damaged the optic nerve, then activated the three stem cell genes in the retinal ganglion cells.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2020
  • He was forced to pull out of a fight with Manny Pacquiao six months ago after suffering a retinal tear to his left eye.
    Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2022
  • In the company’s first study, monthly injections slowed the growth of dead patches of retinal cells in the eye by 29 percent over one year.
    Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Fewer than 5 percent of the neurons, called retinal ganglion cells, grew back.
    Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 2 July 2018
  • Among mammals, only some primates have three types of retinal cones.
    Max G. Levy, Wired, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Among his injuries were bleeding in his brain, retinal hemorrhages and acute brain swelling.
    Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 15 June 2023
  • The retinal in the formula goes to work quickly—our testers saw a difference after just a few uses.
    Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Around a decade later, doctors were trained to suspect the worst if a baby had retinal and subdural bleeding and a swollen brain.
    Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • Mason’s retinal bleeding in both eyes, combined with the fractures and the amount of bleeding in his brain, was consistent with abuse, Shanghvi wrote.
    NBC News, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Retinol, retinal, and retinoic acid are all types of retinoids, which are vitamin A derivatives.
    Tiffany Dodson, SELF, 30 May 2019
  • In untrained hands, this chemical process puts you at risk for retinal burns and infections.
    Katie Berohn, Good Housekeeping, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Another type, retinal migraine, is more rare and focused on one eye.
    Kim Peiffer, Glamour, 22 June 2023
  • Vitamin A can otherwise be known as retinol, retinal or retinoic acid.
    Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
  • There is no cure for progressive retinal atrophy, but it can be slowed down with the proper treatment.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
  • How to prevent eye pain in the future There is no cure for migraine with aura or retinal migraine—or any type of migraine, for that matter.
    Kim Peiffer, Glamour, 22 June 2023
  • There are future plans for more one-year missions, which will allow Macias and his team to study how retinal function is altered over time in space.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The pièce de résistance is the primary suite, which can only be accessed via a retinal scanner.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2023
  • On one end there’s the gentler, over-the-counter retinol and retinal which are available in cosmetic skin-care products like night creams, serums, and moisturizers.
    Dina Cheney, SELF, 4 Oct. 2019
  • This approach works regardless of what caused the degeneration, as long as there are healthy retinal cells available to take up the new opsin gene.
    Caroline Seydel, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • Errol Spence had to back out of the main event of his August 21 welterweight title fight with Manny Pacquiao because of a retinal tear in his left eye.
    Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2021
  • However, there are so many different types of retinol out there: retinol, retinal, retinoid, retinoic acid, tretinoin, and adapalene among them.
    Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Skolik is now a retinal surgeon, still in West Virginia, helping others not to lose their vision.
    Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2020
  • One infant with a skull fracture and bruises also had bleeding at the back of his eyes (called retinal hemorrhages) and healed rib fractures.
    Amitha Kalaichandran, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2018
  • Then in middle school, a genetic condition caused a retinal detachment that left him blind in his left eye.
    Amanda Morris, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2020

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