VISUAL SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visual system mean? 

• VISUAL SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun VISUAL SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. the sensory system for vision

  Familiarity information: VISUAL SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISUAL SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sensory system for vision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("visual system" is a kind of...):

sensory system (the body's system of sense organs)

Meronyms (parts of "visual system"):

eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)

nervus opticus; optic nerve; optic tract; second cranial nerve (the cranial nerve that serves the retina)

Domain category:

sight; vision; visual modality; visual sense (the ability to see; the visual faculty)

 Context examples 

Taken together, the findings suggest that human assessment of face color is an essential operation that is inherent in the human visual system.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

For example, these indicate that Neanderthals had more prominent visual systems than modern humans.

(“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders, National Institutes of Health)

This reduced ability to land on the zebra's coat may be due to stripes disrupting the visual system of the horse flies during their final moments of approach.

(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)

The Doctor of Optometry degree is the first-professional, postgraduate degree awarded to the graduates who have completed a specialized four year post-baccalaureate professional program in order to become independent health care providers who examine, diagnose, treat, and manage disorders of the visual systems and diseases of the eye and associated structures.

(Doctor of Optometry, NCI Thesaurus)

The eeriness of the lamp’s glow triggered an error signal in the visual system.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

A new study provides evidence that the human brain’s visual system is especially sensitive to the color of faces compared to the colors of other objects or things.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)