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metameric Meaning in Tamil ( metameric வார்த்தையின் தமிழ் அர்த்தம்)



Adjective:

அனுவளையவுருவான (அனுப்பாத்துக்குரிய),



metameric's Usage Examples:

The setae are implanted metamerically in accordance with the metamerism of the body, which consists of a prostomium followed by a number of segments.


In one family (Ligulidae) the segmentation is only expressed in the metameric distribution of the generative organs and the worm is externally unisegmental.


It is important to notice that the metameric plan of growth of Chaetopods is still preserved.


In the latter respect, and in the fact that they frequently develop by a metamorphosis, they approach the Mollusca, but they differ from that group notably in the occurrence of metameric segmentation affecting many of the systems of organs.


The Cephalopoda can be derived without much difficulty from the schematic Mollusc, if we assume that some metameric repetition of organs has occurred, as explained above in reference to the coelom.


The internal organs are largely repeated metamerically, in correspondence with the external metamerism.


In the true Chitonidae there are generally two apertures on each side, and in two species three or four, another instance of the tendency to metameric repetition in the group.


The metameric repetition of the shellplates and of the ctenidia are probably special modifications, but it is difficult to explain the spicules of the dorsal integument except as a condition more primitive than the shell itself.


Much of the character of organisms is due to various symmetries, radial, bilateral, metameric and so forth, and these symmetries arise, partly at least, from the mode of growth by cell division and the marshalling of groups of cells to the places where they are destined to proliferate.


Palaeontology therefore throws no light on the question whether the metameric or the unsegmented Mollusca were the earlier.


In the Metanemertini, where the longitudinal stems lie inside the muscular body-wall, definite and metamerically placed nerve branches spring from them and divide dichotomously in the different tissues they innervate.


They are metamerically placed, and belong to the same metamere as the digestive caeca, thus alternating with the generative sacs.





Synonyms:

divided, segmented, segmental,



Antonyms:

united, integrated, collective, joint,

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