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Somite

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. See metamere.

n. A segmental mass of mesoderm in the vertebrate embryo, occurring in pairs along the notochord and developing into muscles and vertebrae.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. One of the paired masses of mesoderm distributed along the sides of the neural tube that will eventually become dermis, skeletal muscle, or vertebrae.

n. A metamere, one of a series of segments, arranged longitudinally, of which some animals are composed.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An actual somatome; any one morphological segment of an articulated body, such a body being viewed as composed of a longitudinal series of somites; an arthromere or metamere of an articulate invertebrate or a diarthromere of a vertebrate; such a segment considered with or without the appendages it may possess; in the latter restricted sense, a metamere minus its appendages, or a segment of the soma or trunk without the limbs it may bear.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally

Word Usage

"The first segment, which is almost half-way down in the embryonic shield of the amniote, is the foremost of all; from this first somite is formed the first cervical vertebra with its muscles and skeletal parts."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

segment

Cross Reference

mesoblastic somite

Form

somitic somitogenesis somitomere

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

somatome metamere