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vision
The act of seeing, or sight
Function:
- vision is facilitated by cooperation of photoreceptor cells with the optic nerve, lateral geniculate nucleus & visual cortex
- visual signal transduction in photoreceptor cells is mediated by a G-protein coupled cascade using cGMP as second messenger
Related
age-associated changes in the eye
eye
eye disease (ophthalmopathy)
visual assessment
visual impairment
Specific
blue vision
General
sensation (sense, sensory)
References
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, 16.
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998, 2012
- Eyes and Vision
http://health.nih.gov/search.asp/8