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Definition of Somites

Somite
Somite So"mite, n. [Gr. ? body.] (Anat. & Zo["o]l.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic, a.

Meaning of Somites from wikipedia

- called somites. The pre-somitic mesoderm commits to the somitic fate before mesoderm becomes capable of forming somites. The cells within each somite are...
- gastrulation and continues until all somites are formed. Their number varies between species: there are 42 to 44 somites in the human embryo and around 52...
- mesenchyme in the head. The somitomeres organize into somites which grow in pairs. In the fourth w****, the somites lose their organization and cover the notochord...
- which somites, blocks of mesoderm that give rise to a variety of connective tissues, are formed. The model describes the splitting off of somites from...
- Somitogenesis is the process by which somites form. Somites are bilaterally paired blocks of paraxial mesoderm that form along the anterior-posterior...
- function of carrying offspring in males. The leg-bearing somites (somite 4 and all trunk somites, the alternatively defined "trunk/thorax") are either segmented...
- marking the ****ure somites in the presomitic mesoderm (unsegmented paraxial). The presomitic mesoderm gives rise to successive pairs of somites, identical in...
- zebrafish use oscillating gene expression to define segments known as somites. Annelids such as the leech use smaller blast cells budded off from large...
- Early markers of somites exist but are not expressed in cephalic mesoderm, although the same cell types that are generated in somites are generated in...
- embryo's length into somites, corresponding to the segmentation of the body (most obviously seen in the vertebral column. Each somite has three divisions...