Sentences with phrase «tapetum lucidum»

Humans have, compared to many animals such as cats and dogs, very poor night vision; you can thank our lack of tapetum lucidum, the layer of tissue found directly behind the retina of many animals that helps reflect visible light back through the retina (both boosting the animals night vision and giving them spooky reflective eyes).

More interesting to me is that the question describes a unilateral tapetum lucidum, which is quite unusual.

In addition, the reflective tissue (tapetum lucidum) in reindeer eyes changes from a rich golden color during the summer months to a deep blue color during the winter months.

A dog's eye is equipped with a mirror - like layer of tissue, called a tapetum lucidum, which reflects light back to the retina allowing the dog to have a second view of an object in dimmer situations.

Well, dogs have tapetum lucidum, which gives them the ability them to see even when it's dark.

Cats can see well in one - sixth the light we can because their eyes have more rods than ours, which allow them to detect more light, and because they have a layer of tissue in their eyes called the tapetum lucidum.

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.

This structure — the tapetum lucidum — reflects light not absorbed by the retina during its first passage through the eye, thus giving the light a second chance to be absorbed and transmitted to the brain.

Dogs eyes contain a special membrane called the tapetum lucidum which allows them to see in the dark...

The tapetum lucidum acts just like a mirror, reflecting light from outside the eye onto the eye cells which interpret it into images.

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 specific eye glow color is influenced by the amount of zinc and riboflavin in the tapetum lucidum.

We see the blood vessels because these dogs don't produce any pigment in the tapetum lucidum at all.

Like dogs, cats also have a tapetum lucidum, which is a reflective layer behind the retina that that sends light back into the eye, improving their ability to see in the dark.

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.

The green reflection you are seeing in the back of your puppy's eye is called the tapetum lucidum.

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

In dogs (and many other animals, but not people), the retina has a reflective layer behind it called the tapetum lucidum, which acts like a mirror, reflecting light at the back of the eyes.

Cats also have a tapetum lucidum, which we shall see.

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.

They also have large pupils and a membrane called a tapetum lucidum beneath their retina, which enhances their ability to see in low light.

The dog and cat eye are comparable in that they both have a nictitating membrane and a tapetum lucidum.

[6][7] These seals also possess a structure called the tapetum lucidum, which helps their vision by having light reflected back to the retina to allow more chances for photoreceptors to detect light.