ommatidium

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.

Reference

  1. Haendel MA., Balhoff JP., Bastian FB., Blackburn DC., Blake JA., Bradford Y. et al. 2014 Unification of multi-species vertebrate anatomy ontologies for comparative biology in Uberon. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. Vol. 5, (1) p. 21. doi: 10.1186/2041-1480-5-21
Creator: Michael Rubinigg
Properties

Label

ommatidium

EUPH Code (UID)

[7912]

EUPH IRI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000971

Descriptor

n/a

This class is part of the ontology

Created

2025-02-10

Updated

2026-04-25
Contributors

Class

Author: Michael Rubinigg

Definition

Author: Michael Rubinigg

Translation

Authors: Michael Rubinigg

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Danish

ommatidium

Noun, Neuter, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
Danish

enkeltøye

Noun, Neuter, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
Dutch; Flemish

ommatidium

Noun, Neuter, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
English

ommatidium

Noun, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
French

ommatidium

Noun, Masculine, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
French

ommatidie

Noun, Feminine, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
German

Ommatidium

Noun, Neuter, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
0
German

Einzelauge

Noun, Neuter, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
Italian

ommatidio

Noun, Masculine, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
Norwegian

ommatidium

Noun, Neuter, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
Norwegian

enkeltøye

Noun, Neuter, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
Portuguese

omatídeo

Noun, Masculine, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan

omatidie

Noun, Feminine, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan

ochi simplu

Compound noun, Masculine, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
Spanish; Castilian

omatidio

Noun, Masculine, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
Swedish

ommatidium

Noun, Neuter, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1
Swedish

fasett

Noun, Singular

Michael Rubinigg
Approved
1