foveanoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfəʊ.vi.ə/us/ˈfoʊ.vi.ə/plural foveae specializeda very small hollow in a bone or organ, especially in the macula of the eye
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- It may well occur, then, that in a movement the image happens to fall on the blind-spot and not on the fovea.
- Its image falls full on the fovea.