Definition of Rhabdoms

1. Noun. (plural of rhabdom) ¹

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Definition of Rhabdoms

1. rhabdom [n] - See also: rhabdom

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhabdoms

rhabdoliths
rhabdology
rhabdom
rhabdomal
rhabdomancer
rhabdomancers
rhabdomancies
rhabdomancy
rhabdomantist
rhabdomantists
rhabdome
rhabdomere
rhabdomeres
rhabdomeric
rhabdomes
rhabdoms (current term)
rhabdomylolysis
rhabdomyoblast
rhabdomyolyses
rhabdomyolysis
rhabdomyolytic
rhabdomyosarcoma
rhabdomyosarcomas
rhabdophobia
rhabdopholist
rhabdopholists
rhabdophora
rhabdopleura
rhabdosarcoma

Literary usage of Rhabdoms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"The rhabdoms are fluted, having in transverse sections the form of a ... In sections from which the pigment has not been removed, the rhabdoms appear as ..."

2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"The rhabdoms contained between the retinal cells correspond to those in the eye of Limulus. The latter is somewhat highly developed, its character as a ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"forming a star-like chitinous centre in section, each lateral eye of Scorpio has several rhabdoms of five or less rhabdomeres, indicating that the Limulus ..."

4. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"... orb, outer refractive body ; irb, inner refractive body ; /?/, retinula? ; Rh, rhabdoms ; nr, ..."

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