Chro"mo*phane (?), n. [Gr. ?
color + ? to show.] (Physiol.) A general name for
the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present
in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in
solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from
the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.