The problem, says Joshua Sanes, a professor at Harvard’s Center for Brain Science, is that they lack a fovea which is a small, specialized area in the retina of concentrated cones. It makes ...

Schneider. Only the fovea, the central area of the retina, can process objects precisely. We should therefore only be able to see a small area of our environment in sharp detail. This area is ...

The fovea capitis is a small, oval-shaped dimple on the ball-shaped end (head) on top of your femur (thigh bone). Your hip is a ball-and-socket joint. The femoral head is the ball. It fits into a ...

This area is called the optic disk. The slightly darker patch to the right of the optic disk is called the fovea. Note: this photo was taken by an optometrist using a special camera. The back of ...

This area, known as the fovea (latin for "pit"), is made up of a tightly packed mosaic of light-sensitive cone photoreceptor cells. Their density reaches peaks of more than 200,000 cones per ...

Opens in a new tab or window ROCHESTER, Minn., April 11 -- A simple test of ulnar fovea tenderness that led to discovery of a common type of ligament injury may ease diagnosis of unexplained wrist ...

GIF explaining the principle of foveated imaging, named after the fovea area of the eye, which gives the highest acuity in vision. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 15 ...

It was found that the foveal appendage led development in the periphery, had the greatest innervated surface area in embryos ... appeared first in the fovea representation. This developmental ...

PARIS, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Fovea Pharmaceuticals announced today that it has entered into a binding agreement with sanofi-aventis to sell 100% of its share to sanofi-aventis. Fovea has a ...