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CROSS-SPECIES ANATOMY - ANNOTATIONS

The Basic subset of the UBERON integrated, cross-species anatomy ontology is downloaded weekly from http://berkeleybop.org/ontologies/uberon/basic.obo. For more information about this ontology see the "About" page on the UBERON website at http://uberon.github.io/about.html.

Term:ommatidium
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Accession:UBERON:0000971 term browser browse the term
Definition:The smallest morphological and functional unit of the compound eye that consists of a usually limited and often constant number of rhabdomeric photoreceptor cells, cornea-secreting epithelial cells, and interommatidial pigment cells, and may additionally contain crystalline cone cells.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: omatidium
 related_synonym: omatidia
 xref: BTO:0001922;   FBbt:00004510;   HAO:0000666;   MAT:0000143;   MIAA:0000143;   Wikipedia:Ommatidium
 relational_adjective: ommatidial



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  UBERON ontology 0
    anatomical entity 0
      material anatomical entity 0
        anatomical structure 0
          anatomical system 0
            nervous system 0
              arthropod sensillum 0
                ommatidium 0
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  UBERON ontology 0
    anatomical entity 0
      material anatomical entity 0
        anatomical structure 0
          multicellular anatomical structure 0
            multicellular organism 0
              anatomical system 0
                entire sense organ system 0
                  sensory system 0
                    visual system 0
                      eye 0
                        multi-unit eye 0
                          compound eye 0
                            ommatidium 0
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