Fovea is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 39 anagrams from letters in fovea (aefov).
1840-50; Latin: pit
The fovea has no rods and hence is of little use in very faint light.
This central part is called the fovea centralis and is the point of acutest vision.
The fovea centralis of the human retina is the seat of most acute vision, and in the fovea centralis there are no rods.
Another significant fact is that the fovea is of little use in very dim light.
Many birds possess besides this temporal fovea a second fovea nearer the nasal side.
The name fovea, given to the constellation by Bayer, signifies a pit where corn was deposited.
The fovea centralis lacks rods and this part of the eye becomes practically color blind at very low intensities of light.
fovea, Foveola -ae: a shallow depression with well-marked sides: a pit.
It is placed by those who mention it in a 'fosse', 'fossatum', or 'fovea'.
It may well occur, then, that in a movement the image happens to fall on the blind-spot and not on the fovea.