any of many similar rodlike structures found in the eyes of insects
Examples of 'rhabdom' in a sentence
rhabdom
The adult ommatidium has a fused rhabdom with eight photoreceptors.
Qing-Xiao Chen, Bao-Zhen Hua 2016, 'Ultrastructure and Morphology of Compound Eyes of the Scorpionfly Panorpa dubia (Insecta:Mecoptera: Panorpidae).', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4892548?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We also find that coding ability increases sub-linearly with total rhabdom length, according to the law of diminishing returns.
Francisco J.H. Heras, Simon B. Laughlin 2017, 'Optimizing the use of a sensor resource for opponent polarization coding', PeerJhttps://peerj.com/articles/2772.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)