Crossword-Solution: FOVEA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fovea | n. | A slight depression or pit; a fossa. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “FOVEA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| RETINAL spot | 1 answer |
| any small pit in the surface of a bodily organ or part | 1 answer |
| Where vision is most acute | 1 answer |
| Tiny pit in the retina | 1 answer |
| Spot in the retina with highest visual acuity | 1 answer |
| Small pit: Biol. | 1 answer |
| Small pit or hollow. | 1 answer |
| Small pit in the retina | 1 answer |
| Retinal area | 1 answer |
| Point of sharpest vision | 1 answer |
| Part of the eye where vision is sharpest | 1 answer |
| Best vision spot | 1 answer |
| Part of the retina | 2 answers |
| BONE depression | 2 answers |
| Retina part | 3 answers |
| Small pit | 4 answers |
| Eye part | 21 answers |
| Pit | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with FOVEA (5)
Clearly, then, the image of _L_ falls at first a little to the right of the fovea, and continues in indirect vision to the end of the movement.
But one may say: The twice-seen portion was in both cases on the fovea; this may have been the conditioning circumstance, and not the fact of being given in the early part of the movement.
For it is well known that in the most sensitive portion of the human retina, the _fovea centralis_, the visual purple is wanting; it is also found to be completely absent from the retinæ of many animals possessing keen sight.
The eye, whose general structure is sufficiently described in all standard physiologies, consists of a visual apparatus designed to bring the images of objects to a clear focus on the retina at the _fovea_, or area of clearest vision, near the point of entrance of the optic nerve.
Abdomen: the apical margins of the segments smooth, impunctate, their basal margins very deeply depressed; a deep fovea at the tip of the apical segment; the head, thorax, and abdomen clothed beneath with short cinereous pubescence.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1963–2018).