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MAMMALIAN PHENOTYPE - ANNOTATIONS

The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.

Term:photophobia
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Accession:MP:0013787 term browser browse the term
Definition:abnormal aversion or avoidance behavior in response to light; photophobia is symptom of abnormal intolerance to visual perception of light; as a medical symptom, photophobia is not a morbid fear or phobia, but an experience of discomfort or pain to the eyes due to light exposure or by presence of actual physical sensitivity of the eyes
Synonyms:exact_synonym: avoidance of light;   light-aversive behavior;   light-aversive behaviour
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