Definition of Mesomere

1. an embryonic segment [n -S]

Medical Definition of Mesomere

1. 1. A blastomere of a size intermediate between a macromere and a micromere. 2. The zone between an epimere and a hypomere. Origin: meso-+ G. Meros, part (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesomere

mesole
mesolect
mesolects
mesolepidoma
mesolimbic
mesolite
mesolites
mesolobus
mesologarithm
mesologarithms
mesolymphocyte
mesolytic
mesomelia
mesomelic
mesomelic dwarfism
mesomere (current term)
mesomeres
mesomeric
mesomeric effect
mesomerism
mesomerisms
mesometeorologic
mesometeorological
mesometeorologist
mesometeorologists
mesometeorology
mesometria
mesometric pregnancy
mesometritis

Literary usage of Mesomere

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1905)
"The product of the left mesomere thus lies in the furrow formed by the juncture of ... By this division the left mesomere buds off a small cell on its left ..."

2. The Origin of Vertebrates by Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1908)
"At the same time, from the mesomere is formed the ... and mesomere together correspond to the original term, ..."

3. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1890)
"The first mesomere, and in one case also the third, gives off likewise on its postaxial side a flat back wardly directed process, which is certainly only a ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1900)
"... which evidently belongs to the mesomere, and through the peculiar ... thorax or mesomere becomes replaced by a metameric thorax. ..."

5. Outlines of Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by John Sterling Kingsley (1917)
"... and mesomere (fig. 8) so that the whole may be compared to a glove with many fingers, each finger being hollow and all of the cavities connecting with ..."

6. History of the Human Body by Harris Hawthorne Wilder (1909)
"From the narrowed mesomere there arise the essential organs of the urogenital ... The cavities of the mesomere become those of the systems derived from it. ..."

7. The Early Development of Planorbis by Samuel Jackson Holmes (1900)
"The primary mesomere soon divides in a nearly horizontal direction, though the cleavage is ... In all these forms the mesomere arises, shortly after the ..."

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