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Definition of Rhabdoms
1. rhabdom [n] - See also: rhabdom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhabdoms
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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