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Micromere :: Micromere (n.) One of the smaller cells, or blastomeres, resulting from the complete segmentation of a telolecithal ovum..

Centrolecithal :: Centrolecithal (a.) Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal..

Meroblastic :: Meroblastic (a.) Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic..

Nauplius :: Nauplius (n.) A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body..

Holoblastic :: Holoblastic (a.) Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic..

Ectolecithal :: Ectolecithal (a.) Having the food yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal ova..

Morula :: Morula (n.) The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See Segmentation..

Blastocoele :: Blastocoele (n.) The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity..

Desegmentation :: Desegmentation (n.) The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body..

Morulation :: Morulation (n.) The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which a morula is formed..

Fission :: Fission (n.) A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division..

Amphiblastic :: Amphiblastic (a.) Segmenting unequally; -- said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation.

Segmentation :: Segmentation (n.) The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation..

Metameric :: Metameric (a.) Of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation; as, metameric segmentation..

Ectental :: Ectental (a.) Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the ectental line or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum..

Periblast :: Periblast (a.) The protoplasmic matter which surrounds the entoblast, or cell nucleus, and undergoes segmentation..

Segment :: Segment (n.) One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation..

Segment :: Segment (v. i.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum..

Pronucleus :: Pronucleus (n.) One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

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