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say it: RET-uh-nuhl
retinal is a noun and adjective meaning "either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from rhodopsin by the action of light". It is pronounced /ˈɹɛtənəl/ — RET-uh-nuhl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
in or relating to the retina of the eye
“retinal cells”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for retinal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.