vision

Introduction

The act of seeing, or sight

Function

• vision is facilitated by cooperation of photoreceptor cells with the optic nerve, lateral geniculate nucleus & visual cortex
• visual signal transduction in photoreceptor cells is mediated by a G-protein coupled cascade using cGMP as second messenger

More general terms

• sensation (sense, sensory)

More specific terms

• blue vision

Additional terms

• age-associated changes in the eye
• eye
• eye disease (ophthalmopathy)
• visual assessment
• visual impairment