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Definition of Metameric
1. Adjective. Having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters.
Category relationships: Zoological Science, Zoology
Similar to: Divided
Derivative terms: Metamere
Definition of Metameric
1. a. Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.
Definition of Metameric
1. Adjective. (biology) exhibiting metamerism ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) (chemistry) exhibiting structural isomerism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Metameric
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Medical Definition of Metameric
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Metameric
Literary usage of Metameric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Organic and Physiological Chemistry by Carl Löwig (1853)
"Some general chemico-physical relations of the organic Combinations. Under metameric
combinations, as was mentioned above, ..."
2. Geological Biology: An Introduction to the Geological History of Organisms by Henry Shaler Williams (1895)
"The metameric and ... and the Arthropoda are, on the contrary, metameric; the
development adds parts by repetition longitudinally along the median axis. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Principles of Chemistry by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir (1884)
"This statement does not of course furnish a definition of metameric compounds;
but it is sufficient. Various hydrocarbons, all possessed of the general ..."
4. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"(1315) metameric Modifications of Malic Acid.—Malic acid has been ascertained by
Pasteur to exist in two modifications, which may be distinguished by the ..."
5. Elements of Medical Chemistry by Benjamin Howard Rand (1867)
"Isomeric, metameric, and Homologous Bodies.—In inorganic chemistry, we have seen
that ... metameric bodies (Gr. meta, beyond, meros, weight) are isomeric ..."
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