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Cephalomere :: Cephalomere (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods.

Epsomite :: Epsomite (n.) Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.

Tergite :: Tergite (n.) The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

Tergum :: Tergum (n.) The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal.

Postscutellum :: Postscutellum (n.) The hindermost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an insect; the plate behind the scutellum.

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..

Baenomere :: Baenomere (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods.

Thoracostraca :: Thoracostraca (a.) An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species..

Pleuron :: Pleuron (n.) One of lateral processes of a somite of a crustacean.

Segment :: Segment (n.) One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome..

Protovertebra :: Protovertebra (n.) One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm..

Somatome :: Somatome (n.) See Somite.

Sternutation :: Sternum (n.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.

Cercopod :: Cercopod (n.) One of the jointed antenniform appendages of the posterior somites of certain insects.

Epimeron :: Epimeron (n.) In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage.

Protosomite :: Protosomite (n.) One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an animal..

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..

Sternly :: Sternite (n.) The sternum of an arthropod somite.

Swimming :: Swimmeret (n.) One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming..

Pleuron :: Pleuron (n.) One of the lateral pieces of a somite of an insect.

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