retinal rod

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   a visual receptor cell that is sensitive to dim light

   Synonymsrodrod cell

   Broadervisual cell

   Part ofretina

   Partsvisual purple

Questions about retinal rod

What does retinal rod mean?

retinal rod means "a visual receptor cell that is sensitive to dim light".

What is another word for retinal rod?

Close synonyms include rod, rod cell. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is retinal rod a common word?

retinal rod is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.