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parietal eye

noun

  1. Zoology. a median outgrowth of the diencephalon anterior to the pineal apparatus, having visual adaptations in many anamniotes and lizards.


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Origin of parietal eye1

First recorded in 1885–90
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"The pineal gland is present in most vertebrate, while the parietal eye is only present some lizards, the tuatara some frogs and salamander," Tosini explained to Salon.

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Some fish, amphibians and reptiles have a third, so-called parietal, eye.

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Then the researchers created caps with pieces of Ping-Pong ball, and attached them with surgical glue and cork as a cushion, to the heads of the anoles to interfere with polarized light that might reach an organ in the brain called the parietal eye.

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The team didn’t just block all light to the parietal eye, because it controls the daily rhythms of the lizard.

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