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. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21062451 ]
Synonyms: omatidium
Term info
- BTO:0001922
- FBbt:00004510
- MAT:0000143
- HAO:0000666
- MIAA:0000143
- Wikipedia:Ommatidium
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