Crossword-Solution: OMMATIDIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ommatidium | n. | One of the single eyes forming the compound eyes of crustaceans, insects, and other invertebrates. |
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| a simple element of a compound eye | 1 answer |
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See "ocellus" and "ommatidium".} Acoustic nerve: connects the auditory pits or other organs of hearing with special ganglia.
Each such unit is termed an "ommatidium." The lateral eyes of Scorpio consist of groups of separate small lenses each with its ommatidium, but they do not form a continuous compound eye as in Limulus.
The ommatidium (soft structure beneath the lens-unit of a compound eye) is very simple in both Scorpio and Limulus.
The cells of the ommatidium are a good deal larger than the neighbouring common cells of the epidermis.
The structure of the lateral eye of Limulus was first described by Grenacher, and further and more accurately by Lankester and Bourne (5) and by Watase; that of Scorpio by Lankester and Bourne, who showed that the statements of von Graber were erroneous, and that the lateral eyes of Scorpio have a single cell-layered or "monostichous" ommatidium like that of Limulus.