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somitomere

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
somit-o-mere
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

somitomeres (plural) somatomere (alternative)

Questions

What does somitomere mean?
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.
Where does somitomere come from?
From somite + -o- + -mere.

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