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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The fovea , a tiny depression at the center of the retina where visual acuity is highest, does all the heavy lifting while the rest of your vision goes unused. \u2014 Sonya Collins, Fortune , 6 May 2022",
"Humans typically move this fovea , the focus of our vision, two or three times a second while tracking something of interest. \u2014 Joshua Learn | Inside Science, ABC News , 12 Sep. 2021",
"Most of its light is focused on a small portion of the retina at the back of the eye, called the fovea . \u2014 Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics , 17 Jan. 2020",
"The fovea takes up just about four to five percent of the retina's overall area, but contains most of its nerve endings. \u2014 Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics , 17 Jan. 2020",
"Since that would be rather unwieldy, only one tiny area of the retina\u2014called the fovea \u2014provides this kind of resolution. \u2014 Tim Vernimmen, Smithsonian , 14 June 2019",
"Those piercing eyes are much like yours, equipped with 3-D vision and a fovea \u2014 a centralized concentration of light receptors \u2014 the better to focus and track. \u2014 Natalie Angier, New York Times , 22 Sep. 2017",
"The damage occurs in the fovea , a spot in the retina that is responsible for sharp, central vision. \u2014 Rachael Rettner, Scientific American , 7 July 2017",
"The ultraviolet light from the sun gets focused from the eye's lens to the center of the retina, called the fovea , Lujan said. \u2014 Jessica Greif, OregonLive.com , 18 May 2017"
"probably from (assumed) New Latin foveolarius , from New Latin foveola + Latin -arius -ary":""
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"foveole from New Latin foveola; foveolet from foveole + -et":""
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": a small depression in the center of the macula (see macula sense 2b ) that contains only cones and constitutes the area of maximum visual acuity and color discrimination \u2014 see eye illustration":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The fovea , a tiny depression at the center of the retina where visual acuity is highest, does all the heavy lifting while the rest of your vision goes unused. \u2014 Sonya Collins, Fortune , 6 May 2022",
"Humans typically move this fovea , the focus of our vision, two or three times a second while tracking something of interest. \u2014 Joshua Learn | Inside Science, ABC News , 12 Sep. 2021",
"Most of its light is focused on a small portion of the retina at the back of the eye, called the fovea . \u2014 Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics , 17 Jan. 2020",
"The fovea takes up just about four to five percent of the retina's overall area, but contains most of its nerve endings. \u2014 Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics , 17 Jan. 2020",
"Since that would be rather unwieldy, only one tiny area of the retina\u2014called the fovea \u2014provides this kind of resolution. \u2014 Tim Vernimmen, Smithsonian , 14 June 2019",
"Those piercing eyes are much like yours, equipped with 3-D vision and a fovea \u2014 a centralized concentration of light receptors \u2014 the better to focus and track. \u2014 Natalie Angier, New York Times , 22 Sep. 2017",
"The damage occurs in the fovea , a spot in the retina that is responsible for sharp, central vision. \u2014 Rachael Rettner, Scientific American , 7 July 2017",
"The ultraviolet light from the sun gets focused from the eye's lens to the center of the retina, called the fovea , Lujan said. \u2014 Jessica Greif, OregonLive.com , 18 May 2017"
