English Explanatory Dictionary

somitomere

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In the developing vertebrate embryo, one of the loose masses of paraxial mesoderm derived cells that form along each side of the neural tube towards the end of the third gestational week.

Word forms

somitomere somitomeres somatomere

Etymology

From somite + -o- + -mere.

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