retinomotor
Zoology
adjective
Designating movements of retinal photoceptors and pigment granules in response to light and other stimuli; of, relating to, or involved in such movements.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in The Lancet. After German retinomotorisch.
- be seeing things
- beseem
- beset
- be set fair
- be set in concrete
- besetting sin
- be shitting bricks
- beshrew
- be sick
- beside
- beside oneself
- beside (or off) the point
- besides
- beside the point
- besiege
- besiegement
- besieger
- be simplicity itself
- be sitting pretty
- be skin and bone
- besmear
- besmirch
- be snowed under
- be so good as (or be good enough) to do something
- besom