Purkinje

{poor’ ’-kin-ye) [I. E. Purkinje, a Bohemian physiologist, 1 787-1869]. P.’s Cells, large ganglion-cells of the cerebellar cortex, disposed as a single row at the junction of the nuclear and the molecular layer, and presenting pyriform or flask-shaped bodies, 60—70 \i in their longest diameter. P.’s Figures, shadows of the retinal blood ve els upon the retina. P.’s Vesicle, the nucleus of the human ovum; the germinal vesicle. Purkinje-Sanson’s Images. Three pairs of images of one object seen in an observed pupil: the first, erect, reflected from the anterior surface of the cornea; the second, erect, reflected from the anterior surface of the lens; the third, inverted, reflected from the posterior capsule of the lens. Purple, Visual. See Rhodopsin. 537