FOVEA (foveae)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: foveae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fovea mean? 

• FOVEA (noun)
  The noun FOVEA has 1 sense:

1. area consisting of a small depression in the retina containing cones and where vision is most acute

  Familiarity information: FOVEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOVEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Area consisting of a small depression in the retina containing cones and where vision is most acute

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

fovea; fovea centralis

Hypernyms ("fovea" is a kind of...):

area; region (a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve)

Holonyms ("fovea" is a part of...):

retina (the innermost light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball; it is continuous with the optic nerve)

 Context examples 

A yellowish, highly pigmented, oval shaped area slightly lateral to the center of the retina of the eye which contains the fovea centralis and is mostly comprised of retinal cones.

(Macula Lutea, NCI Thesaurus)

In one patch within the fovea, there are cone cells for red and green but none for blue.

(Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, Wikinews)

The lower or ventral portion of the fourth ventricle transversed by the median sulcus with numerous nuclei and structures including the striae acusticae (or medullaris), fovea inferior and fovea superior, clava, obex, area postrema, and the trigonum hypoglossi and trigonum vagi.

(Floor of the Fourth Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)

In the back of the eye, there is a site called the fovea which contains cone cells, of three kinds responding either to red, green, or blue light.

(Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, Wikinews)