| Name: | amacrine cell |
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| Synonyms: | amacrine neuron |
| Definition: | Interneuron of the vertebrate retina. They integrate, modulate, and interpose a temporal domain in the visual message presented to the retinal ganglion cells, with which they synapse in the inner plexiform layer. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0009255] |
| Name: | visual perception |
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| Synonyms: | sense of sight, sensory visual perception, vision |
| Definition: | The series of events required for an organism to receive a visual stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Visual stimuli are detected in the form of photons and are processed to form an image. |
| Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0007601] QuickGO AmiGO |