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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   In the developing vertebrate embryo, one of the loose masses of paraxial mesoderm derived cells that form along each side of the neural tube towards the end of the third gestational week.

Etymology

From somite + -o- + -mere.

Related phrases

neural tube

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