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ommatidium

Term ID
UBERON:0000971
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. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21062451
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