The outer segment of a vertebrate photoreceptor that contains a stack of membrane discs embedded with photoreceptor proteins. [ GOC:cilia http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26574505 GOC:krc http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19501669 GOC:pde https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0824072820 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6771304 ]
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- cellular anatomical entity
- part of some cilium
- part of some photoreceptor cell
- part of some neuron
- part of some photoreceptor cell cilium