Sentences with phrase «of tapetum lucidum»

Dr. Smith is correct — the description is of the tapetum lucidum, a normal anatomical structure.

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The tapetum lucidum enhances the light - gathering efficiency of your dog's eyes by nearly 40 percent and accounts for that eerie eye - glow you see at night.

Thanks to the tapetum lucidum, a cat's sensitivity to light is thought to be about six times greater than that of a human's.

Unlike humans, dogs and other crepuscular or nocturnal animals have a light - reflecting surface at the back of their eyes called the tapetum lucidum.

The tapetum lucidum is a reflective layer that causes the retina (the back of the eye) to appear green or yellow, or some color variation in between.

Dogs, like other animals that are predatory by nature, have a membrane near the back of their eye that is somewhat like a mirror, called the tapetum lucidum.