About The Word Segmental
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Segmental
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What's The Definition Of Segmental?
[adj] (zoology) having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters
[adj] (linguistics) divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds Synonyms | Synonyms for Segmental: divided | metameric | segmented Related Terms | Find terms related to Segmental: See Also | Segmental In Webster's Dictionary \Seg*men"tal\, a.
1. Relating to, or being, a segment.
2. (Anat. & Zo["o]l.)
(a) Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a
segmental duct; segmental papill[ae].
(b) Of or pertaining to the segmental organs.
{Segmental duct} (Anat.), the primitive duct of the embryonic
excretory organs which gives rise to the Wolffian duct and
ureter; the pronephric duct.
{Segmental organs}.
(a) (Anat.) The embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates,
consisting primarily of the segmental tubes and
segmental ducts.
(b) (Zo["o]l.) The tubular excretory organs, a pair of
which often occur in each of several segments in
annelids. They serve as renal organs, and often, also,
as oviducts and sperm ducts. See Illust. under
{Sipunculacea}.
{Segmental tubes} (Anat.), the tubes which primarily open
into the segmental duct, some of which become the urinary
tubules of the adult.
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