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  • noun Plural form of retina.

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Examples

  • Cantor looks like he's coming to us live from inside a root cellar, and Debbie WS is lit to the point where I worry she might be having her retinae damaged.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2010

  • Cantor looks like he's coming to us live from inside a root cellar, and Debbie WS is lit to the point where I worry she might be having her retinae damaged.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Cantor looks like he's coming to us live from inside a root cellar, and Debbie WS is lit to the point where I worry she might be having her retinae damaged.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2010

  • Cantor looks like he's coming to us live from inside a root cellar, and Debbie WS is lit to the point where I worry she might be having her retinae damaged.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2010

  • Cantor looks like he's coming to us live from inside a root cellar, and Debbie WS is lit to the point where I worry she might be having her retinae damaged.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Cantor looks like he's coming to us live from inside a root cellar, and Debbie WS is lit to the point where I worry she might be having her retinae damaged.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2010

  • At least Kenneth Graham wasn't somewhere else in the world, getting a new face and new retinae and new fingertips from Loren's illicit organ banks.

    Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

  • Cantor looks like he's coming to us live from inside a root cellar, and Debbie WS is lit to the point where I worry she might be having her retinae damaged.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Breed dogs who are very sensitive to motion—who probably have an overabundance of rod photoreceptors in their retinae—and you may also get a dog whose acute sensitivity to motion leads to their being temperamentally high-strung.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • Our eyes face forward, and our retinae have foveae: central areas with an extra abundance of photoreceptors.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

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