Word Meanings - RETINAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the retina. Retinal purple (Physiol. Chem.), the visual purple.

Related words: (words related to RETINAL)

• RETINALITE
  A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.
• PHYSIOLOGICALLY
  In a physiological manner.
• PHYSIOLOGIC
  Physiological.
• PHYSIOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to physiology; relating to the science of the functions of living organism; as, physiological botany or chemistry.
• RETINAL
  Of or pertaining to the retina. Retinal purple (Physiol. Chem.), the visual purple.
• RETINASPHALT; RETINASPHALTUM
  Retinite.
• RETINACULUM
  One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms. (more info) A connecting band; a frænum; as, the retinacula of the ileocæcal and ileocolic valves. One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones
• PHYSIOLOGER
  A physiologist.
• VISUALIZER
  One who visualizes or is proficient in visualization; esp.
• PURPLEHEART
  A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera . Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PHYSIOLOGIST
  One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.
• VISUALIZE
  No one who has not seen them can possibly visualize them. Lubbock.
• PURPLE
  Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia as, the banded purple . See Illust. under Ursula. (more info) porpre, pourpre, F. pourpre, L. purpura purple fish, purple dye, fr. 1. A color formed
• PHYSIOLATRY
  The worship of the powers or agencies of nature; materialism in religion; nature worship. "The physiolatry of the Vedas." M. Williams.
• RETINA
  The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye. Note: The fibers of the optic nerve and the retinal blood vessels spread out upon the front surface of
• PHYSIOLOGY
  1. The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life. Note: It is divided into animal and vegetable physiology, dealing with animal and vegetable life respectively.
• PURPLEWOOD
  See PURPLEHEART
• VISUAL
  1. Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve. The air, Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray. Milton. 2. That can be seen; visible. Visual angle. See under Angle. -- Visual cone
• PHYSIOLOGIZE
  To speculate in physiology; to make physiological investigations. Cudworth.
• EMPURPLE
  To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." Philips.
• ELECTRO-PHYSIOLOGICAL
  Pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by change of action in a living organism.
• BEPURPLE
  To tinge or dye with a purple color.
• PHYTOPHYSIOLOGY
  Vegetable physiology.