primitive segment
nounDefinition of primitive segment
: any one of the transverse segments into which the body of the embryo of vertebrates becomes marked off by the formation beginning first in the neck region of a series of distinctly limited masses of mesoblast cells on each side of the neural tube
— called also
protovertebra
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