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Definition of Somitic
1. somite [adj] - See also: somite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Somitic
Literary usage of Somitic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Course of Elementary Instruction in Practical Biology by Thomas Henry Huxley, Henry Newell Martin, George Bond Howes, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1902)
"The dorsal or peritoneal pores; small median perforations of the body-wall, lying
at the bases of the somitic constrictions between all but some few of the ..."
2. A Course of Elementary Instruction in Practical Biology by Thomas Henry Huxley, Henry Newell Martin (1888)
"The dorsal m peritoneal pores ; small median perforations of the body-wall, lying
at the bases of the somitic constrictions between all but some few of the ..."
3. A Course of Elementary Instruction in Practical Biology by Thomas Henry Huxley, Henry Newell Martin (1892)
"Examine the somitic constrictions in this region from the side. There will be
found, opening upon those which subdivide segments 9—10 and 10—n in a line ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"... must have been an elongate poly-somitic animal with lamellate appendages, the
basal portions of one or more " legs " serving at the same time as both ..."
5. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"In the cat it appears that several somitic constrictions are initiated simultaneously.
In our reckoning we have regarded only the complete clefts and the ..."
6. The Development of the Chick: An Introduction to Embryology by Frank Rattray Lillie (1908)
"The vertebral segmentation has now become predominant as contrasted with the
primitive somitic. The development of the vertebrae during the fifth day ..."
7. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1899)
"... but they are nearly exclusively found on the dorsal and lateral sides of each
somitic equatorial, and are almost absent on the ventral side. ..."
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