neuromere

neuromere
Elevations in the wall of the developing neural tube that divide the developing spinal cord (n.) into portions to which dorsal and ventral roots are attached, or that divide the developing rhombencephalon into portions associated primarily with motor portions of the cranial nerves of the medulla and pons. SYN: encephalomere, neural segment, neurotome (2). [neuro- + G. meros, part]

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neu·ro·mere 'n(y)u̇r-ə-.mi(ə)r n a metameric segment of the vertebrate nervous system <the \neuromeres of the spinal cord are identified by the exits of the spinal nerves>

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neu·ro·mere (noorґo-mēr) [neuro- + -mere] any of the series of transitory segmental elevations in the wall of the neural tube of the developing embryo; those specific to the rhombencephalon may be called rhombomeres. Called also neural segment.

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