Etymology · Medieval Latin
retina
4 English words descend from Medieval Latin retina, most common first.
- retinaThe thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball that contains rods and cones sensitive to light, which trigger nerve impulses that pass via the optic nerve to the brain, where a visual image is formed.
- ablatio retinaeDetachment of the retina.
- retineumPart of the eye of an invertebrate which corresponds in function with the retina of a vertebrate, hypothetical membrane resembling the retina.
- retinulaOne of the group of pigmented cells that surround the retinophorae of invertebrates.