Organ or Tissue Function
eye development
eye de·vel·op·ment [ ahy dih-vel-uhp-muhnt ]
Definitions related to eye development:
  • Development of the eye, the organ of vision.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Human Eye Development involves bilateral outpouchings of optic vesicles, from the neural tube, that each form optic cups. By cell division, migration, differentiation, and synaptogenesis, the inner surface becomes the multi-layer neuroepithelial retina; the outer monolayer becomes the retinal pigment epithelium. Surface membranes cover the eye and develop into the lens, iris and cornea.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The process whose specific outcome is the progression of the eye over time, from its formation to the mature structure. The eye is the organ of sight.
    Gene Ontology Dictionary
    Gene Ontology Consortium, 2021
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