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Segmentation   /sˌɛgməntˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Segmentation

noun
1.
(embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum.  Synonym: cleavage.
2.
The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart.  Synonyms: division, partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization.



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"Segmentation" Quotes from Famous Books



... see in various organs of the rabbit, and especially in the case of the limbs and vertebral column, what is called metameric segmentation, that is, a repetition of parts, one behind the other, along the axis of the body. Thus the bodies and arches of the vertebrae repeat each other, and so do the spinal nerves. The renal organ of the rabbit, ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells

... this proceeded to develop that particular part of the embryo to which it would have given rise if the rest of the egg had not been killed. There was no regeneration of the part killed, no formation of a complete embryo. It may be pointed out that segmentation in the insect egg is peculiar. The nuclei multiplied by segmentation migrate into the superficial cytoplasm surrounding the yolk, and then this cytoplasm segments, and each part of the cytoplasm develops into a particular region of the embryo. This, of course, does not prove ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham



Words linked to "Segmentation" :   gestation, septation, maternity, cellular division, cleavage, cell division, subdivision, embryology, separation, zoning, pregnancy, segment



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