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light-sensitive cell

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light-sensitive cell [′līt ¦sen·səd·iv ′sel]
(electronics)


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Special light-sensitive cells in mantis shrimp eyes act as quarter-wave plates, which can rotate the plane of the oscillations (the polarization) of a light wave as it travels through it.
A This is an eye condition where the sufferer begins to lose vision in the centre of the eye due to damage of the light-sensitive cells on the retina.
As a result of this pressure, the blood vessels that bring nutrients and oxygen to the fibers of the optic nerve and light-sensitive cells of the retina collapse.
 
 
 
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