scleromere

1. Any metamere of the skeleton, such as a vertebral segment. 2. Caudal half of a sclerotome. [sclero- + G. meros, part]

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scle·ro·mere (sklērґo-mēr) [sclero- + -mere] 1. any segment or metamere of the skeletal system. 2. the caudal half of a sclerotome (def. 3).