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A special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina
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photopigment
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Photopigments are unstable pigments that undergo a chemical change when they absorb light. The term is generally applied to the non-protein chromophore moiety of photosensitive chromoproteins , such as the pigments involved in photosynthesis and photoreception ...
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n. a special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina
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n. Any pigment that is unstable in the presence of light; used especially of the chromophore pigments in the rod cells and cone cells of the eye