SINCE 1828
Purkinje phenomenon
nounMedical Definition of Purkinje phenomenon
: a shift of the region of apparent maximal spectral luminosity from yellow with the light-adapted eye toward violet with the dark-adapted eye that is presumably associated with predominance of cone vision in bright and rod vision in dim illumination
— called also Purkinje effect, Purkinje shift
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