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rhabdom
1. One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulae in the compound eyes of insects, etc.
2. A transparent rod in the center of each ommatidium in the compound eye of an arthropod.

The compound eye of insects is composed of hundreds of unit eyes called ommatidia. An ommatidium contains a cluster of photoreceptor cells surrounded by support cells and pigment cells.

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