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Definition of Metameres
1. metamere [n] - See also: metamere
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metameres
Literary usage of Metameres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Biology: An Introduction to the Geological History of Organisms by Henry Shaler Williams (1895)
"... metameres.—As such an organism is supposed to develop parts by differentiation,
these parts are arranged in one of the following three ways: radially, ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... nor do the nephridia ever acquire any relations to thc alimentary canal.
metameres by septa which correspond to the segmentation oí ..."
3. Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Carl Gegenbaur (1878)
"The body of the Arthropoda, which is formed into metameres either by gradual ...
As a general rule the metameres are similar in the early larval stages, ..."
4. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"As a rule, a series of two to ten or more metameres unites into a functional
region and a concentration of these metameres occurs that makes it difficult to ..."
5. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1903)
"Spinal and Root metameres in Syringomyelia.—Luigi Ferrannini (Zentralbl.
fiir innere Med., Jan. 10, 1903) describes 2 cases that he believes indicate that ..."
6. A Text-book of Invertebrate Morphology by James Playfair McMurrich (1896)
"A physiological division of labor among the metameres develops, ... The subordination
of the metameres proceeds most rapidly and is most complete at the ..."
7. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"These primitive forms differed from worms, in the greater amount of fusion of
their metameres, whi< h at an early period had ceased to give to these animals ..."
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"We state as the NINTH LAW of metamerism " that new somites or metameres are added
to a chain consisting of two or more somites by growth and gradual ..."
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