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Definition of Metamerism
1. n. The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.
Definition of Metamerism
1. Noun. (biology) The segmentation of the body into similar discrete units ¹
2. Noun. (''colorimetry'') The matching of apparent color of objects with different spectral power distributions. ¹
3. Noun. (chemistry) structural isomerism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Metamerism
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Literary usage of Metamerism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1865)
"No case of metamerism between two single fatty acids has yet been ma<le out ...
A very remarkable example of metamerism is afforded by the different ..."
2. Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Carl Gegenbaur (1878)
"metamerism of the Body. § 51. The planning out of the individual organism as a
single structural entity is only characteristic of lower conditions of ..."
3. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1892)
"SPIRAL MODIFICATION OF metamerism. TH MORGAN. THE unusual forms of metamerism
recorded below are by no means uncommon in the Annelids. ..."
4. Amphioxus and the Ancestry of the Vertebrates by Arthur Willey (1894)
"A. Heart, ch. Note- chord. HJ. Integumentary nerve-plexus. reproductive elements.
metamerism. Although there is no muscular metamerism in ..."
5. A Laboratory Text-book of Embryology by Charles Sedgwick Minot (1910)
"metamerism. All vertebrates and certain invertebrates have their bodies divided
into a series of parts, which begins in the region of the head and extends ..."
6. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"metamerism.—That the spinal nerves are segmentally arranged, a pair for each
metamere, is readily appreciated in the case of the typical body segments of ..."
7. Treatise on General and Industrial Organic Chemistry by Ettore Molinari (1921)
"metamerism. Constitutional and rational formulae explain clearly isomerism in
general and also the special case bearing the name metamerism. ..."
8. A History of Chemistry from Earliest Times to the Present Day Being Also an by Ernst von Meyer (1906)
"... and metamerism, as special cases of isomerism, in essentially the same manner
as we still do today.3 His power of generalising, even with but a scanty ..."
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