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Body Regions > Head > Face > Eye
Sense Organs > Eye

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Eye  

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  • inflammation of the eye = ENDOPHTHALMITIS or specific -ITIS terms in Category C11, Eye Diseases; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD is available for arthropods

Scope note

  • The organ of sight constituting a pair of globular organs made up of a three-layered roughly spherical structure specialized for receiving and responding to light.

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