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PRONUNCIATION OF OMMATIDIAL

ommatidial  [ˌɒməˈtɪdɪəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OMMATIDIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ommatidial is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OMMATIDIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ommatidium

The compound eyes of arthropods like insects, crustaceans and millipedes are composed of units called ommatidia. An ommatidium contains a cluster of photoreceptor cells surrounded by support cells and pigment cells. The outer part of the ommatidium is overlaid with a transparent cornea. Each ommatidium is innervated by one axon and thus provides the brain with one picture element. The brain forms an image from these independent picture elements. The number of ommatidia in the eye depends upon the type of insect and ranges from just a handful in the primitive Archaeognatha and Thysanura to around 30 thousand in larger Anisoptera dragonflies and in some Sphingidae moths. Ommatidia are typically hexagonal in cross section and approximately ten times longer than wide. The diameter is largest at the surface, tapering toward the inner end. At the outer surface there is a cornea, below which is a pseudocone that acts to further focus the light. The cornea and pseudocone form the outer ten percent of the length of the ommatidium.

Definition of ommatidial in the English dictionary

The definition of ommatidial in the dictionary is of or relating to the ommatidium.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OMMATIDIAL


aecidial
iːˈsɪdɪəl
antheridial
ˌænθəˈrɪdɪəl
basidial
bæˈsɪdɪəl
biradial
baɪˈreɪdɪəl
chlamydial
kləˈmɪdɪəl
clostridial
klɒˈstrɪdɪəl
conidial
kəʊˈnɪdɪəl
interradial
ˌɪntəˈreɪdɪəl
interstadial
ˌɪntəˈsteɪdɪəl
iridial
aɪˈrɪdɪəl
miracidial
ˌmaɪrəˈsɪdɪəl
nephridial
nɪˈfrɪdɪəl
perradial
pəˈreɪdɪəl
plastidial
plæsˈtɪdɪəl
presidial
prɪˈsɪdɪəl
pygidial
paɪˈdʒɪdɪəl
rachidial
rəˈkɪdɪəl
radial
ˈreɪdɪəl
stadial
ˈsteɪdɪəl
triradial
traɪˈreɪdɪəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OMMATIDIAL

omissiveness
omit
omittance
omitted
omitter
omitting
omlah
OMM
ommateum
ommatidia
ommatidium
ommatophore
ommatophorous
Ommiad
omneity
omnia vincit amor
omniana
omniarch
omnibenevolence
omnibenevolent

WORDS THAT END LIKE OMMATIDIAL

cordial
crithidial
custodial
dial
endocardial
epicardial
gonidial
medial
mondial
myocardial
pericardial
prandial
predial
primordial
remedial
rhachidial
speed dial
speed-dial
sporidial
sundial

Synonyms and antonyms of ommatidial in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ommatidial» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

网膜
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ommatidial
570 millions of speakers

English

ommatidial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ommatidial
380 millions of speakers
ar

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ommatidial
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

омматидий
278 millions of speakers

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ommatidial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ommatidial
260 millions of speakers

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ommatidial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ommatidial
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ommatidien
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

個眼
130 millions of speakers

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ommatidial
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ommatidial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ommatidial
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ommatidial
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ओम्मॅटिडियल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ommatidial
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ommatidial
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ommatidial
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

омматидий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ommatidial
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

ομματιδίων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ommatidial
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

ommatidial
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ommatidial
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ommatidial

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OMMATIDIAL»

The term «ommatidial» is used very little and occupies the 179.682 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OMMATIDIAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ommatidial

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OMMATIDIAL»

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WCNN'93, Portland: World Congress on Neural Networks, July ...
the fly's lamina (Ogmen and Gagne', 1990). However, unlike an on-off unit which only signals the onset and offset of an input stimulus, our ommatidial node uniquely identifies the stimulus as an increase or decrease from the delayed stimulus.
‎1993
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A Phenotypic and Genetic Characterization of the Cell ...
The complete mechanism underlying ommatidial rotation remains unclear. Manipulation of cell-cell adhesion and response to cell signaling are clearly vital for correct ommatidial rotation, but the means by which ommatidia coordinate these ...
Jennifer Lynn Fetting, 2009
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A Morphological and Genetic Analysis of Directed Cell ...
This observation led to the hypotheses that ommatidial rotation occurs in two 45° steps, that these steps can be genetically separated, and that nmo is essential for the second step (from 45° to 90°) (Choi and Benzer 1994; Brown and Freeman ...
Ryan William Fiehler, 2007
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Development of the Nervous System
R8s spread themselves out through the Notch lateral inhibition pathway. D. Cascade of photoreceptor determination in a developing ommatidial cluster. R8, the first cell to be determined, expresses atonal (ato) and signals neighboring cells to ...
Dan H. Sanes, Thomas A. Reh, William A. Harris, 2011
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Fundamental Neuroscience
As they leave the MF, cells of the eye disc become arranged in a pattern of “ rosettes”that foreshadow the regular ommatidial pattern. Soon afterward, one cell is singled out in each rosette to become R8. Being the first cells to differentiate, R8 ...
Larry R. Squire, 2013
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The Nemo Kinase Regulates Ommatidial Rotation in the ...
However, the mechanisms of rotation are not understood. Results of this work suggest that Nemo kinase regulates rate of rotation by specifically acting on cadherin-catenin complexes at the level of adherens junctions.
Ivana Mirkovic, 2007
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Determinants of Neuronal Identity
How can discrete, evenly spaced ommatidial units arise from an apparently homogeneous epithelial sheet? In grasshoppers, elegant ablation experiments have provided one possible answer (Doe and Goodman, 1985). Neuroblasts in the ...
Marty Shankland, 1992
8
Invertebrate Vision
In the eyes of Papilio (Fig. 7.3) and Pieris, the situation is more complicated. In these eyes, even the long-wavelength receptors (i.e. short visual fibres) differ in sensitivity between the ommatidial types. The expression of different opsin genes  ...
Eric Warrant, Dan-Eric Nilsson, 2006
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Adaptive Mechanisms in the Ecology of Vision
p Heteronympha merope Figure 3 The pattern of ommatidial receptive fields in different regions of the eye of the Australian butterfly Heteronympha merope ( 3om Land. 1989a). The circles represent the dark'adapted acceptance angles ( Ap ...
S. Archer, 1999
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Issues in Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences ...
“A prominent feature of Drosophila eye development is the 90 degrees rotational movement of the multicellular ommatidial precursors within a matrix of stationary cells. We demonstrate that the cell adhesion molecules Echinoid (Ed) and ...
‎2012

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OMMATIDIAL»

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A Transgenic Drosophila melanogaster Model To Study Human T …
We demonstrate that Tax-1 but not Tax-2 induces ommatidial perturbation and increased plasmatocyte proliferation and that the eye phenotype ... «Journal of Virology, Jul 15»
2
Research Paper: "Common Design Principles" Explain Patterns of …
... revealed striking similarities with the stochastic retinal mosaic of Drosophila, despite considerable differences in ommatidial organization. «Discovery Institute, Jun 15»
3
Studying moths to improve solar cells
The paper goes by the lengthy title of: "Multiscale Ommatidial Arrays with Broadband and Omnidirectional Antireflection and Antifogging ... «Digital Journal, Mar 15»
4
No Other Animal In The World Sees Color Like The Mantis Shrimp
Michael F. Land and Daniel OsorioA diagram of the compound eye of the mantis shrimp Odontodactylus scyllarus shows the six ommatidial ... «Business Insider, Jan 14»
5
The eyes of Anomalocaris
Grey fill in b represents visual surface, the proximal part in the upper eye extrapolated from the lower eye. c, Detail of ommatidial lenses located ... «ScienceBlogs, Dec 11»
6
Complex eyes in the Cambrian
All fossil eyes have large central ommatidial lenses forming a light-sensitive bright zone, b, and a sclerotized pedestal, p. Because the fossil ... «ScienceBlogs, Jun 11»
7
One gene provides fruit fly both antenna & color vision
... the expression of different light-sensitive pigments (rhodopsins) in the two central photoreceptor cells (R7 and R8) of each ommatidial cluster. «Washington University Record, Apr 06»

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