Bergmeister's papilla
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Bergmeister's papilla
A vestigial lesion of the eye due to incomplete atrophy of the posterior segment mesoderm. It is a cone of glial tissue with a vascular core which extends from the optic disk for a few millimeters into the vitreous humor in cattle.
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