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Definition of Opsin

1. Noun. Retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin.

Definition of Opsin

1. Noun. (biochemistry) Any of a group of light-sensitive proteins in the retina ¹

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Definition of Opsin

1. a type of protein [n -S] - See also: protein

Medical Definition of Opsin

1. General term for the apoproteins of the rhodopsin family. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Opsin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"opsin gave him the rectory of Houghton-le-Spring, to which he was instituted on 7 Dec. 1661, and on 11 March 1662 he was collated to a prebend in Durham ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1891)
"The liver elaborates not only bile, but also glycogen; the pancreas separates not only trypsin, amyl- opsin, ..."

3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1891)
"... coordinates of the satellite referred to the axis of the shadow-cone of Jupiter as the ',- axis. r sin a sin T = opsin (r—A) — a pain (v — T). sin 7 tan ..."

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