Sentences with phrase «destroys cells in the retina»
When disease such as macular degeneration destroys cells in the retina, the code is lost.
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LCA is a rare inherited eye disease that destroys vision by killing photoreceptors — light - sensitive cells in the retina at the back of the eye.
Genetic diseases like retinitis pigmentosa destroy the photosensitive cells of the eye, the photoreceptors, but often leave intact the other cells in the retina: the bipolar cells that the photoreceptors normally talk to, and the ganglion cells that are the retina's output to the brain.
This refers to a certain dog eye disease that affects and destroys the retina cells in both eyes resulting into blindness.