retina

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛt.ɪ.nə/
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• General-American: /ˈɹɛt.ə.nə/
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• General-American: /ˈɹɛt.nə/
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• rhymes with -ɛtɪnə
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• CMU ARPABET: R EH1 T AH0 N AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English rethina, borrowing from Medieval Latin rētīna (“retina”, feminine noun), ellipsis of tunica rētīna (“net-like tunic”), used to describe the blood vessel system at the back of the eye. The phrase is attested in the 12th century in Guillelmus the abbot and Gerard of Cremona—the latter may have created this phrase as a translation for Arabic طَبَقَة شَبَكِيَّة (ṭabaqa šabakiyya) "net-like layer", which translates Ancient Greek ἀμφιβληστροειδής χῐτών (amphiblēstroeidḗs khĭtṓn, “retina”), which is attested in the ancient medical writer Galen.

73 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: شَبَكِيَّة عَيْن (šabakiyyat ʕayn) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Arabic: شَبَكِيَّة (šabakiyya) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Armenian: ցանցաթաղանթ (cʻancʻatʻaġantʻ) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Belarusian: сятча́тка (sjatčátka) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Bengali: রেটিনা (reṭina) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Bulgarian: рети́на (retína) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Burmese: မြင်လွှာ (mranghlwa) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Catalan: retina — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Chinese Mandarin: 視網膜 /视网膜 (shìwǎngmó) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Chinese Mandarin: 網膜 /网膜 (wǎngmó) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Czech: sítnice — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Danish: nethinde — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Dutch: netvlies — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Dutch: retina — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Esperanto: retino — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Estonian: võrkkest — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Finnish: verkkokalvo — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Finnish: retina — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• French: rétine — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• German: Netzhaut — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• German: Retina — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Greek: αμφιβληστροειδής (amfivlistroeidís) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Hebrew: רִשְׁתִּית (rishtít) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Hindi: रेटिना (reṭinā) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Hungarian: retina — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Hungarian: recehártya — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Indonesian: retina — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Irish: reitine — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Italian: retina — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Japanese: 網膜 (mōmaku) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Khmer: ចិត្របដ (cetraʔbat) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Khmer: រ៉េទីន (reetiin) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Korean: 망막 (mangmak) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Northern Kurdish: tore — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Lao: ຈັກຂຸປະສາດ (chak khu pa sāt) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Latvian: tīklene — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Lithuanian: tinklainė — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Macedonian: мре́жница (mréžnica) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Malay: retina — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Māori: āhuahua — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Māori: mata tuaroa — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Norwegian Bokmål: netthinne — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Norwegian Nynorsk: netthinne — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Persian: شبکیه (šabakiyye) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Plautdietsch: Uagennat — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Polish: siatkówka — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Portuguese: retina — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Romanian: retină — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Russian: сетча́тка (setčátka) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Russian: рети́на (retína) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Serbo-Croatian: ретина — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Serbo-Croatian: мрежница — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Serbo-Croatian: мрежњача — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Serbo-Croatian: retina — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Serbo-Croatian: mrežnica — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Serbo-Croatian: mrežnjača — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Slovak: sietnica — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Slovene: mrežnica — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Spanish: retina — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Swedish: näthinna — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Swedish: retina — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Tagalog: busilig — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Thai: จอตา (jor-dtaa) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Turkish: ağ kat — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Turkish: ağ tabaka — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Ukrainian: сіткі́вка (sitkívka) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Ukrainian: рети́на (retýna) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Urdu: شبکیہ — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Urdu: ریٹنا (reṭinā) — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Vietnamese: võng mạc — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Vietnamese: màng lưới — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Volapük: retin — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball
• Welsh: retina — thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball