Term Name: ommatidium
Synonyms: omatidia, omatidium
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.
Ontology: Cell Ontology [UBERON:0000971]

Relationships
is part of: compound eye
is a type of: arthropod sensillum eye