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  • 41retina — Synonyms and related words: baby blues, banjo eyes, bright eyes, clear eyes, cornea, eye, eyeball, eyelid, goggle eyes, iris, lens, lid, naked eye, nictitating membrane, oculus, optic, optic nerve, orb, organ of vision, peeper, popeyes, pupil,… …

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  • 42eye — I. n. 1. Organ of sight, organ of vision. 2. Sight, view, estimate, judgment. 3. Watch, notice, vigilance, observation, inspection. 4. Perforation, aperture, eyelet, eyelethole. 5. Bud, shoot. II. v. a. Watch, observe, view, look on, fix the eye… …

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  • 43Camera obscura — This article is about an optical device. For other uses, see Camera obscura (disambiguation) …

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  • 44Jean Pecquet — Jean Pecquet(1622 1674) was a French scientist from Dieppe. He studied the expansion of air, wrote on psychology, and is also known for investigating the thoracic duct. Furthermore, he studied the nature of vision.LifeHe studied medicine at… …

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  • 45Ocular — may refer to: Eye, an organ of vision that detects light Eyepiece, the optical element closest to the eye in a telescope or microscope Ocular scale, a type of scales in reptiles This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same… …

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  • 46tuatara — /tooh euh tahr euh/, n. a large, primarily nocturnal, lizardlike reptile, Sphenodon punctatum, of islands near the coast of New Zealand: the only surviving rhynchocephalian. Also, tuatera /tooh euh tair euh/. Also called sphenodon. [1810 20; <&#8230; …

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  • 47Williamson, Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher — ▪ 2004       Australian born composer (b. Nov. 21, 1931, Sydney, Australia d. March 2, 2003, Cambridge, Eng.), was an astonishingly prolific and versatile composer as well as the first non Briton to become (1975) master of the queen s music. His&#8230; …

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  • 48oculus — SYN: eye (1). [L.] * * * oc·u·lus äk yə ləs n, pl li yə .lī EYE (1) * * * oc·u·lus (okґu l&#601;s) gen. and pl. oґculi [L.] [TA] the organ of vision; see eye. Symbol O …

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  • 49ocellus — Little eye, distinct from main organ of vision [Williams, 1984]. Simnple single eye or eye spot; common in some branchiopods and copepods. See: naupliar eye [McLaughlin, 1980]. Unpaired median eye, common in some branchiopods (e.g., Notostraca)&#8230; …

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  • 50PINEAL GLAND —    a small cone shaped body of yellowish matter in the brain, the size of a pea, and situated in the front of the cerebellum, notable as considered by Descartes to be the seat of the soul, but is now surmised to be a rudimentary remnant of some&#8230; …

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