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chromophanes

chromophanes is the plural of chromophane.

Meaning of chromophane

Noun

chromophane (plural chromophanes)

  1. Any of several colouring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.

Questions about chromophanes

What is chromophanes the plural of?
Chromophanes is the plural of chromophane.

Words near chromophanes in the dictionary

  1. chromopeptide
  2. chromopeptides
  3. chromopermittivity
  4. chromopexy
  5. chromophane
  6. chromophanes
  7. chromophil
  8. chromophile
  9. chromophiles
  10. chromophilia
  11. chromophilic

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