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- adjective of vision
monochromatic , as used in neardarkness , using therod cells
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Examples
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I have what they call scotopic sensitivity, which means fluorescent lighting really hurts my eyes, head, and entire nervous system.
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I have what they call scotopic sensitivity, which means fluorescent lighting really hurts my eyes, head, and entire nervous system.
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In limited light, the eyes shift to what is known as scotopic vision, where the photoreceptors in the retina can only perceive simple, large areas of tone, with uncertain boundaries.
Day for Night Sketching James Gurney 2009
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He has a double Purkinje shift with maximum scotopic vision occurring in both the yellow and the blue-violet ranges.
Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson 2000
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Darkness: scotopic conditions; carlbachol: 1 min after topical instillation of carlbachol under dark conditions.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010
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Darkness: scotopic conditions; carlbachol: 1 min after topical instillation of carlbachol under dark conditions.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010
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Disproportionate loss of photopic vision as compared to scotopic vision was postulated to be caused by light scattering by the corneal lipid deposits.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michael L. Nickerson et al. 2010
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Klein SA (1989) Peripheral positional acuity: Retinal and cortical constraints on 2-dot separation discrimination under photopic and scotopic conditions.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anna Oleksiak et al. 2010
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Darkness: scotopic conditions; carlbachol: 1 min after topical instillation of carlbachol under dark conditions.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010
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The bulbs combine a newly patented proprietary scotopic phosphor blend with a non-radioactive after-glow phosphor blend that provides illumination, helping the human eye adapt more quickly to sudden low-light conditions in an emergency power outage.
qms commented on the word scotopic
If you'd not be thought misanthropic
Then hew to a course philosophic
And look on your fellows,
The whites, blacks and yellows,
Alike with an eye that's scotopic.
May 26, 2016