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oligocone

oligocone adjective: having a reduced number of functioning cone cells.

Adjective

oligocone (not comparable)

  1. Having a reduced number of functioning cone cells.
    • Final diagnoses of participating subjects included RP (34 cases), cone-rod dystrophy (23 cases), cone dystrophy (eight cases), macular dystrophy (eight cases), Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA; three cases), achromatopsia (three cases) and oligocone trichromacy (two cases).2016 January 15, “Mutation Detection in Patients with Retinal Dystrophies Using Targeted Next Generation Sequencing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of oligocone

From oligo- + cone.

Questions about oligocone

What does oligocone mean?
Oligocone means having a reduced number of functioning cone cells.
What part of speech is oligocone?
Oligocone is an adjective.

Words near oligocone in the dictionary

  1. oligoclonal bands
  2. oligoclonality
  3. oligoclonally
  4. oligoclone
  5. oligoclones
  6. oligocone
  7. oligocracies
  8. oligocracy
  9. oligocratic
  10. oligocrystalline
  11. oligoculture

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