enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Pseudopupil - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopupil

    The head of a mantis showing the black pseudopupil in its compound eyes The eye of a mantis shrimp has three regions, each with its own pseudopupil.. In the compound eye of invertebrates such as insects and crustaceans, the pseudopupil appears as a dark spot which moves across the eye as the animal is rotated. [1]

  3. Melanism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanism

    Melanism is the congenital excess of melanin in an organism resulting in dark pigment. Pseudomelanism, also called abundism, is another variant of pigmentation, identifiable by dark spots or enlarged stripes, which cover a large part of the body of the animal, making it appear melanistic.

  4. Deroceras reticulatum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deroceras_reticulatum

    Deroceras reticulatum is very variable in colour, creamy or light coffee cream, rarely blackish spotted (slugs with spots may appear blackish). [2] Behind the mantle there is the dark spots form a reticulate pattern. [2] The skin is thick. [2] Mucus is colourless, on irritation milky white. [2]

  5. Floater - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater

    Despite the name "floaters", many of these specks have a tendency to sink toward the bottom of the eyeball, in whichever way the eyeball is oriented; the supine position (looking up or lying back) tends to concentrate them near the fovea, which is the center of gaze, while the textureless and evenly lit sky forms an ideal background against ...

  6. Eye color - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color

    Green eyes are most common in Northern, Western, and Central Europe. [50] [51] Around 8–10% of men and 18–21% of women in Iceland and 6% of men and 17% of women in the Netherlands have green eyes. [52] Among European Americans, green eyes are most common among those of recent Celtic and Germanic ancestry, occurring in about 16% of people ...

  7. Phosphene - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene

    One example of a pressure phosphene is demonstrated by gently pressing the side of one's eye and observing a colored ring of light on the opposite side, as detailed by Isaac Newton. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Another common phosphene is "seeing stars" from a sneeze , laughter, a heavy and deep cough, blowing of the nose , a blow on the head or low blood ...

  8. Lampides boeticus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampides_boeticus

    The underface of each hindwing shows a pair of small black eye-spots beside each tail, with an orange marginal spots at the anal angle. [10] This species is rather similar and it can be confused with Leptotes pirithous and Cacyreus marshalli although the pea-blue is significantly larger than both species. Male.

  9. Visual snow syndrome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow_syndrome

    The dots are usually black/gray on a white background and gray/white on a black background; however, they can also be transparent, white flashing, or colored. Presence of at least 2 additional visual symptoms of the 4 following categories: i. Palinopsia. At least 1 of the following: afterimages or trailing of moving objects. ii.