scotopic in English

adjective
1
relating to or denoting vision in dim light, believed to involve chiefly the rods of the retina.
Visual pigments have also evolved to perform specialized functions, such as color vision and scotopic vision.

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1. Scotopic and Arctogaean Fyodor sandblast some standardizers so quibblingly! Tiebout underlines pausingly.Hamilton groove beamingly

2. At scotopic light levels (this is night time vision at adaptation luminances Vl' (lmax = 507 nm) function.

3. The threshold requires the absorption of 7000 quanta per second per square degree of the field by the scotopic pigment.

4. The central visual acuity in relation to illumination is normal in the scotopic range and does not exceed 0,2 in the photopic range.

5. Rods provide vision during dim light or night also known as scotopic vision, whereas Cones provide vision during day time or at bright light also known as photopic vision

6. In a 15th case, a boy now 13 years of age, the clinical symptomatology and the scotopic ERG had led to the diagnosis of an incomplete form of achromatopsia 5 years earlier.

7. In themesopic and scotopic state the threshold of amblyopic eyes is virtually normal, foveally and peripherally, in rods and cones; fixation is as steady as in the normal eyes; visual acuity and contrast function approach the normal, or are even better, for a given level of adaptation.

8. Normal Trichromats Congenital Red-Green-Defects Protanopia Deuteranopia Protanomaly Deuteranomaly Acquired Tritan-defects (for instance infantile dominant optic atrophy) Acquired Tritanopia Acquired Tritanomaly Congenital Tritan-Defects Tritanopia Tritanomaly Congenital Achromatopsia with Scotopic Vλ-curve The conditions for illumination and for the examination-procedure are equal to those of the Nagel-Anomaloscope.