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Ontology Browser

Term:
Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
compound eye +    
eye +    
aphakic space 
compound eye corneal lens 
eye gland +  
head sensillum +  
insect Bolwig organ 
insect embryonic/larval sensillum +  
insect external sensillum +  
insect internal sensillum +  
left eye +  
median eye 
multi-unit eye +  
nauplius eye 
ommatidium 
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.
photoreceptor array +  
pigment epithelium of eye +  
right eye +  
simple eye +  
tapetum +  
transparent eye structure +  

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: omatidium
Related Synonyms: omatidia
Xrefs: BTO:0001922 ;   FBbt:00004510 ;   HAO:0000666 ;   MAT:0000143 ;   MIAA:0000143 ;   Wikipedia:Ommatidium
relational_adjective: ommatidial
Definition Sources: PMID:21062451

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