somite

IPA: sʌmaɪt

(embryology) One of the paired masses of mesoderm distributed along the sides of the neural tube that will eventually become dermis, skeletal muscle, or vertebrae.
(anatomy) A metamere, one of a series of segments, arranged longitudinally, of which some animals are composed.

Examples of "somite" in Sentences

These two body segments are connected with a small waist called the pedicle or the pregenital somite.
The somite pattern in the fish embryo is much less complex than the segment pattern of the Drosophila larva.
When the wave of gene expression encounters a set of responsive cells, those cells are specified to become the next somite.
The genes affecting somite subdivision by the horizontal myoseptum might represent members of these signalling processes (Figure 5G).
In addition we have also demonstrated the physiological PNS potential of 8 weeks old NPs 7 days after implantation of the cells into the developing neural tube (NT) of 18-23 somite chick embryos in ovo.
Pdx-1 is expressed in the mouse primitive gut as early as the 13 somite stage (E8. 5), about a day before endocrine gene expression and 1.5 days before the first morphologic evidence of pancreas organogenesis.
The first segment, which is almost half-way down in the embryonic shield of the amniote, is the foremost of all; from this first somite is formed the first cervical vertebra with its muscles and skeletal parts.
The current study was carried out to test whether any of the five major signaling pathways are regulated by tbx16 during two specific stages of mesoderm development: primitive red blood cell formation in the intermediate mesoderm and somite formation in the tail paraxial mesoderm.