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visual purple

noun

, Biochemistry.


visual purple

noun

  1. another name for rhodopsin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of visual purple1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

In the outer part of the rods the visual purple or rhodopsin is found.

Is the visual purple more active in monocular than in binocular vision, or what physiological activity is thereby taxed in increased degree?

It only takes three or four quanta to stimulate the visual purple—a little more actually because of absorption by the eyeball itself.

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