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Meaning of "rhabdomere" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RHABDOMERE

ˈræbdəˌmɪə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RHABDOMERE

noun
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Rhabdomere is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RHABDOMERE 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 rhabdomere in the English dictionary

The definition of rhabdomere in the dictionary is one of the many parts that makes up a rhabdom.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RHABDOMERE

actinomere · arthromere · blastomere · Buttermere · capsomere · casimere · cassimere · centromere · chromomere · ectomere · Grasmere · kerseymere · mesomere · metamere · podomere · Rothermere · sarcomere · telomere · uromere · Windermere

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RHABDOMERE

rhabdocoele · rhabdoid · rhabdolith · rhabdom · rhabdomal · rhabdomancer · rhabdomancy · rhabdomantist · rhabdomyoma · rhabdomyomata · rhabdosphere · rhabdovirus · rhabdus · rhachial · rhachides · rhachidial · rhachilla · rhachis · rhadamanthine

WORDS THAT END LIKE RHABDOMERE

anywhere · arriere · as it were · as you were · Calimere · cashmere · chimere · dungmere · epimere · everywhere · here · macromere · mere · micromere · out there · Point Calimere · somewhere · there · Thirlmere · were

Synonyms and antonyms of rhabdomere in the English dictionary of synonyms

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RHABDOMERE»

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Drosophila MyoV is Essential for Rhabdomere Development and ...
Bingbing Li. 2.2.9. Rab11, dRip11 and MyoV Colocalize at the base of rhabdomere. From a previous study (Bonafe and Sellers, 1998), it is known that MyoV transcript can be detected by Northern blot of mRNA from both adults and embryo but ...
Bingbing Li, 2007
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Functional Surfaces in Biology: Little Structures with Big ...
14.15 Diagrams of the optics of a fly facet lens and photoreceptor rhabdomere. a According to geometric optics, the size of the visual field is given by the spatial angle taken up by the rhabdomere (rh) tip. Due to diffraction at the facet lens (fl) ...
Stanislav Gorb, 2009
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Invertebrate Vision
1.5 Diagram of light capture by a fly rhabdomere. Incident light is focused by the facet lens (diameter Dl) on the rhabdomere. ya is the angle of a light ray arriving at the rhabdomere entrance. Light-guiding in the rhabdomere is limited by the ...
Eric Warrant, Dan-Eric Nilsson, 2006
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The Roles of Twinstar and the Actin Cytoskeleton During ...
This rhabdomere internalization looked like the "buckling" of a rhabdomere that Longley and Ready observed in a mys mutant (Longley and Ready, 1995). To study this the F-actin in the tsr RS aged retinas were stained with phalloidin and the ...
Hung Dinh Pham, 2007
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Invertebrate and Vertebrate Eye Development
2.2.1. Rhabdomere development The rhabdomere is an elongated apical structure of tightly packed and highly organized microvilli which is supported by a stalk membrane and zonula adherens (Fig. 5.3; Izaddoost et al., 2002; Longley and ...
‎2010
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Design principles of sensory receptors
In Drosophila, this is achieved by the inner photore- ceptors (R7 and R8) that contain different Rs. The R7 rhabdomere is located distally in the retina and expresses one of two opsins, Rh3 or Rh4, characterized by a UV-absorbing R and ...
Dieter Wicher, 2013
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Handbook of Cell Signaling, 2/e
One possibility is that signaling components are targeted independently to the rhabdomere, where they are then incorporated into complexes. Another possibility is that signaling components are pre-assembled into complexes in the soma ...
Ralph A. Bradshaw, Edward A. Dennis, 2009
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Photoreceptors and Calcium
The apical membrane contains the rhabdomere, a densely packed, highly ordered stack of small protrusions of the plasma-membrane called microvilli. Optically, the rhabdomere works as a wave-guide, trapping the light that enters into it and ...
Wolfgang Baehr, Krzysztof Palczewski, 2002
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Visual Transduction And Non-Visual Light Perception
The preassembly of the signaling complex could ensure that only complete complexes and no stray complex components are present in the rhabdomere. It may also be required for the correct targeting of ePKC and PLCβ to the rhabdomere ...
Joyce Tombran-Tink, Colin J. Barnstable, 2008
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Animal Models of Human Disease
... are properly specified but are unable to create a complete rhabdomere.87 However, in contrast to vertebrates, Otd is not the sole homeodomain-containing transcription factor required for rhabdomere formation or photoreceptor cell function.
‎2011

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RHABDOMERE»

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In a Fly's Eye: My, Oh My, What Evolution -- er, Design
The rhabdomere is truly amazing. Freifeld and Clandinin describe it as "a cylindrical body that functions as a light-guide, maximizing photon absorption. «Discovery Institute, Aug 12»
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Scientists link a gene to degenerative blindness
This composite image depicts a highly magnified view of a fruit fly's head overlaid with light-sensitive cells known as rhabdomeres, in green. Other cellular ... «University of Wisconsin-Madison University Communications, Jan 06»
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Wo Darwin noch erschauderte
Bei der Untersuchung des "Urtiers" entdeckten die Forscher, dass in seiner Larve zwei Arten lichtempfindlicher Zellen koexistieren: rhabdomere und ziliäre ... «Telepolis, Nov 04»
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