Explore Fovea through 6 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like area or region. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Fovea meaning
- A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
- The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.
Using Fovea
- The main meaning on this page is: A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ. | The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.
- Useful related words include: fovea centralis, area, region.
- In the example corpus, fovea often appears in combinations such as: the fovea, their fovea.
Context around Fovea
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fovea
- In this selection, "fovea" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include because the fovea is not and in the fovea and have. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fovea" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fovea
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cone cells are highly concentrated in the fovea and have a high visual acuity meaning that they are better at spatial resolution than rod cells. (25 words)
To aid in training a person to look at an object with their fovea rather than their eccentric retinal zone, a training device can be used. (26 words)
Despite occupying about 0.01% of the visual field (less than 2° of visual angle ), about 10% of axons in the optic nerve are devoted to the fovea. (28 words)
The goal of the training is for the user to learn to look at the test object in such a way that the Haidinger's brush overlaps the test object (and the viewer is thus now looking at it with their fovea). (42 words)
Xanthophyll pigments tend to be parallel to visive nerves that, because the fovea is not flat, are almost orthogonal to the fovea in its central part while being nearly parallel in its outer region. (34 words)
Below the pit the other retina layers are displaced, before building up along the foveal slope until the rim of the fovea or parafovea which is the thickest portion of the retina. (32 words)
Example sentences (6)
Xanthophyll pigments tend to be parallel to visive nerves that, because the fovea is not flat, are almost orthogonal to the fovea in its central part while being nearly parallel in its outer region.
Below the pit the other retina layers are displaced, before building up along the foveal slope until the rim of the fovea or parafovea which is the thickest portion of the retina.
Cone cells are highly concentrated in the fovea and have a high visual acuity meaning that they are better at spatial resolution than rod cells.
Despite occupying about 0.01% of the visual field (less than 2° of visual angle ), about 10% of axons in the optic nerve are devoted to the fovea.
The goal of the training is for the user to learn to look at the test object in such a way that the Haidinger's brush overlaps the test object (and the viewer is thus now looking at it with their fovea).
To aid in training a person to look at an object with their fovea rather than their eccentric retinal zone, a training device can be used.
Common combinations with fovea
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: