| Term: | lens lens fiber cell differentiation |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | lens |
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| Synonyms: | lenses |
| Definition: | Portion of tissue that is a transparent, biconvex structure located in the eye through which light is focused. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000035] |
| Name: | lens fiber cell differentiation |
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| Synonyms: | lens fibre cell differentiation |
| Definition: | The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a lens fiber cell, any of the elongated, tightly packed cells that make up the bulk of the mature lens in the camera-type eye. The cytoplasm of a lens fiber cell is devoid of most intracellular organelles including the cell nucleus, and contains primarily crystallins, a group of water-soluble proteins expressed in vary large quantities. |
| Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0070306] QuickGO AmiGO |