Word: retinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dowling said his own work focuses on vision and the retina, which he termed "the approachable part of the brain...
...overall flavor sensation). The loss of taste can lead to lack of appetite and sometimes to serious nutritional deficiencies. Hearing fades, particularly in the high-frequency range, and processing of information slows. Vision begins deteriorating at about 40. The pupil shrinks, reducing the amount of light reaching the retina. An 80-year- old's retina receives only about a sixth of the light that a 20-year-old's does. The lens hardens and clouds. More than half of those 60 and older have some cataract formation...
Leaders kept vanishing, leaving behind them a kind of iridescent afterimage upon the retina, and a sense of wonder...
BEST COMEBACK Returning to the ring against everyone's wishes, Sugar Ray Leonard protected his repaired retina long enough to restore his crown in a startling upset of Middleweight Champion Marvin Hagler...
Many future scientists have gone on to even greater heights of glory after first exploring topics in their theses. The 1972 Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Christian Boehmer Anfinsen wrote his 1943 graduate thesis on "Quantitative Histochemical Studies of the Retina...