See Also: light-adapted eye(medicine)
tissue preservation(medicine)
dark-adapted eye(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Preservation(medicine)
preservation(dictionary)
self-preservation(dictionary)
preservation(dictionary)
PRESERVATION(law)
Preservation of capital(finance)

light-adapted eye (medicine) and tissue preservation (medicine)


light-adapted eye (medicine)


light-adapted eye


An eye that has been exposed to light, with bleaching of rhodopsin (visual purple) and insensitivity to low illumination.

Synonym: photopic eye.


tissue preservation (medicine)


tissue preservation


The process by which a tissue or aggregate of cells is kept alive outside of the organism from which it was derived (i.e., to keep from decay by means of a chemical agent, cooling, or a fluid substitute that mimics the natural state within the organism).