chromophane
Meanings
noun
- Any of several colouring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.
Word forms
Etymology
From chromo- + -phane.
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