• (n.) One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulae in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See Illust. under Ommatidium.
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(from the article `photoreception`) ...cone, which is the principal focussing device; and two layers of photoreceptors (distal and proximal) in the optic axis, each of which is radially ... Rhabdoms consisting of microvilli can detect the plane of polarization of polarized light. Invertebrates with such rhabdoms use polarization ... ...
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Rhab'dom (răb'dŏm)
noun [ Greek
'ra`bdwma a bundle of rods, from
'ra`bdos a rod.]
(Zoology) One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulæ in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See
Illust. under
Omma...
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rhabdom 1. One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulae in the compound eyes of insects, etc. 2. A transparent rod in the center of each ommatidium in the compound eye of an arthropod. The compound eye of insects is composed of hundreds of unit eyes called ommatidia. An ommatidium contains a ...
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