Definition of photoreceptor
:a receptor for light stimuli
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Recent work from his lab preliminarily suggests that spiders of a related species, Maratus volans, have four different photoreceptors in their two big, beautiful principal eyes, making them what are known as tetrachromats.
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Dr. Levy was fascinated by a class of photoreceptors known as cryptochromes.
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First Known Use of photoreceptor
1906
Medical Dictionary
photoreceptor
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medical Definition of photoreceptor
:a receptor for light stimuli
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