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adj. - Having the body divided into successive metameres as in earthworms or lobsters;

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  • We are now in a position to notice, without any danger of misconception, what is called the segmental theory of the skull.
  • When the arch is formed of a curve that is less than a semicircle (a segment of a circle), with its centre below the diameter, it is called a segmental arch.
  • CNVs in humans and chimpanzees often occur in equivalent genomic locations: most lie in regions of the genomes, called segmental duplications, that are particularly...
  • I'm using the term in the sense of "segmental" progerias, conditions in which an organism expresses some but not all component of accelerated aging.
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