light-adapted eye
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light-a·dapt·ed eye
an eye that has been exposed to light, with bleaching of rhodopsin (visual purple) and insensitivity to low illumination.
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light-a·dapt·ed eye
(līt-ă-dap'tĕd ī) An eye that has been exposed to light, with bleaching of rhodopsin (visual purple) and insensitivity to low illumination.
Synonym(s):
photopic eye.
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