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Definition of segment

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Segment (n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration..

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Pes :: Pes (n.) The distal segment of the hind limb of vertebrates, including the tarsus and foot..

Alitrunk :: Alitrunk (n.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax.

Slashed :: Slashed (a.) Divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp incisions; laciniate.

Cremaster :: Cremaster (n.) The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect.

Segment :: Segment (n.) A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim..

Ectolecithal :: Ectolecithal (a.) Having the food yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal ova..

Somite :: Somite (n.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere..

Alecithal :: Alecithal (a.) Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm..

Brachium :: Brachium (n.) The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.

Segment :: Segment (v. i.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum..

Strobila :: Strobila (n.) A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae..

Presternum :: Presternum (n.) The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium.

Actinomere :: Actinomere (n.) One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata.

Iulus :: Iulus (n.) A genus of chilognathous myriapods. The body is long and round, consisting of numerous smooth, equal segments, each of which bears two pairs of short legs. It includes the galleyworms. See Chilognatha..

Holoblastic :: Holoblastic (a.) Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic..

Scutum :: Scutum (n.) The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax.

Manubrium :: Manubrium (n.) A handlelike process or part; esp., the anterior segment of the sternum, or presternum, and the handlelike process of the malleus..

Flanch :: Flanch (n.) A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.

Mesothorax :: Mesothorax (n.) The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

Vertebra :: Vertebra (n.) One of the serial segments of the spinal column.