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Definition of Photoreceptive
1. Adjective. (biology) Absorbing and using light, especially for sensory purposes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Photoreceptive
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Photoreceptive
1. Functioning as a photoreceptor. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Photoreceptive
Literary usage of Photoreceptive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1922)
"On the one hand, photoreceptive units, each more or less like a direction eye,
have become arranged as a spherical system, thus giving rise to the compound ..."
2. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"... or photoreceptive received from some agent as this latter becomes prepotent
in the environment; but it knits together separate stimuli of even wholly ..."
3. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"... or photoreceptive received from some agent as this latter becomes prepotent
in the environment; but it knits together separate stimuli of even wholly ..."
4. The Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1908)
"He finds that the extension of the anterior segments of the worm presents more
fully to light certain cells, probably photoreceptive, which lie near the ..."
5. Contributions from the Bermuda Biological Station for Research by Bermuda Biological Station for Research (1916)
"The photoreceptive mechanism includes the action of the green fluorescent
integumentary pigment as sensitiser. ..."
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