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Merismatic :: Merismatic (a.) Dividing into cells or segments; characterized by separation into two or more parts or sections by the formation of internal partitions; as, merismatic growth, where one cell divides into many..

Protopodite :: Protopodite (n.) The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean..

Mesencephalon :: Mesencephalon (n.) The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.

Metasternum :: Metasternum (n.) The ventral plate of the third or last segment of the thorax of insects.

Segment :: Segment (n.) A segment gear.

Division :: Division (n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.

Nauplius :: Nauplius (n.) A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body..

Mesoscutum :: Mesoscutum (n.) The scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect. See Illust. of Butterfly.

Setigerous :: Setigerous (a.) Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle..

Entomere :: Entomere (n.) The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals..

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

Mollusca :: Mollusca (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or m

Protomerite :: Protomerite (n.) The second segment of one of the Gregarinae.

Tapeworm :: Tapeworm (n.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adh

Bilobate :: Bilobate (a.) Divided into two lobes or segments.

Morulation :: Morulation (n.) The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which a morula is formed..

Propodium :: Propodium (n.) The segment which forms the posterior part of the thorax of a hymenopterous insect.

Stylohyoid :: Stylohyal (n.) A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.

Prescutum :: Prescutum (n.) The first of the four pieces composing the dorsal part, or tergum, of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is usually small and inconspicuous..

Metamere :: Metamere (n.) One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva..

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