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light adaptation

DEFINITIONS OF: light adaptation

1

n the process of adjusting the eyes to relatively high levels of illumination; the pupil constricts and the cones system is operative

Type of:
adaptation
(physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
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