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- noun Plural form of
sclerotome .
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Examples
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Fusion of the individual sclerotomes in an antero-posterior direction soon takes place, and thus a continuous strand of cells, the sclerotogenous layer, is formed along the ventro-lateral aspects of the neural tube.
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But as the one has arisen phylogenetically from the other, we must assume that in the former no less than the latter the skull was originally formed from the sclerotomes of a number of (at least nine) head-somites.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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From the phylogenetic point of view the myotomes are much older than the sclerotomes.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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