protovertebral segment

  • 1primitive segment — primordial segment, protovertebral segment somite …

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  • 2somite — One of the paired, metamerically arranged cell masses formed in the early embryonic paraxial mesoderm; commencing in the third or early fourth week in the region of the hindbrain, they develop in a caudal direction typically until 42 pairs are… …

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