LIGHT-SENSITIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does light-sensitive mean? 

• LIGHT-SENSITIVE (adjective)
  The adjective LIGHT-SENSITIVE has 1 sense:

1. sensitive to visible light

  Familiarity information: LIGHT-SENSITIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIGHT-SENSITIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sensitive to visible light

Synonyms:

light-sensitive; photosensitive

Context example:

photographic film is light-sensitive

Similar:

sensitive (responsive to physical stimuli)

 Context examples 

It focuses light rays that enter the eye through the pupil, making an image on the retina (light-sensitive layers of nerve tissue at the back of the eye).

(Lens, NCI Dictionary)

A synthetic light-sensitive, volatile, clear yellow oil that is soluble in water, lipids, and other organic solvents.

(N-Nitrosodiethylamine, NCI Thesaurus)

No light-sensitive photoreceptors are contained within this portion of the retina.

(Optic Disc, NCI Thesaurus)

The measurements are based on how the light-sensitive dye reacts to the light.

(Flow cytometry, NCI Dictionary)

Your retina is the light-sensitive tissue at the back of your eye.

(Diabetic Eye Problems, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

But because the 14 had faulty rods and cones—the main light-detecting and image-producing cells in the eye—the scientists suspected that some other type of light-detecting cell must contribute to light-sensitive pain.

(How Light Boosts Migraine Pain, NIH, US)

Unlike humans, mice and other small mammals’ cone cells are segregated in the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.

(New color vision pathway unveiled, NIH)

Dry AMD happens when the light-sensitive cells in the macula slowly break down.

(Macular Degeneration, NIH: National Eye Institute)

A condition in which there is a slow breakdown of cells in the center of the retina (the light-sensitive layers of nerve tissue at the back of the eye).

(Age-related macular degeneration, NCI Dictionary)

Incoming light passes through nerve-fibres and intermediary nerve cells of the neural retina, before encountering the light-sensitive rods and cones at the interface between neural retina and the pigmented retinal epithelium.

(Neural Retina, NCI Thesaurus)