Purkinje's figure
(also Purkinje figure) Physiology
noun
(Chiefly in plural) a visual image of branching lines, produced by the shadows cast by the retinal blood vessels when light enters the eye obliquely in certain conditions of illumination.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Huxley (1825–1895), biologist and science educationist.
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