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Rhodopsin

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Noun

1. retinal purple, rhodopsin, visual purple

a red photopigment in the retinal rods of vertebrates; dissociates into retinene by light

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Rhodopsin

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noun
a red pigment in the rods of the retina in vertebrates. It is dissociated by light into retinene, the light energy being converted into nerve signals, and is re-formed in the dark
. Also called: visual purple See also iodopsin

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Rhodopsin

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noun
a purplish, photosensitive protein pigment that is essential for vision in dim light, found in the rods of the retina
also called visual purple see opsin

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Rhodopsin

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n.
Any of a class of reddish, light-sensitive pigments found in the retinal rods of the eyes of terrestrial and marine vertebrates, consisting of opsin and retinal. Also called visual purple.

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