Medical Term:
retinal
Pronunciation: ret′i-năl
Definition:
- Relating to the retina.
- Retinaldehyde, most commonly referring to the all-trans form; participates in the visual process; 11-cis-retinal binds with an opsin to form iodopsin or rhodopsin; light causes the formation of all-trans-retinal, which dissociates from the protein.
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