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Webster 1913 Edition
Somite
So′mite
(sō′mīt)
, Noun.
[Gr.
σῶμα
body.] (Anat. & Zool.)
One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere.
– So-mitˊic
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, Adj.
Definition 2024
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English
Noun
somite (plural somites)
- (embryology) One of the paired masses of mesoderm distributed along the sides of the neural tube that will eventually become dermis, skeletal muscle, or vertebrae.
- (anatomy) A metamere, one of a series of segments, arranged longitudinally, of which some animals are composed.