Definition of Podomere

1. Noun. A segment of a limb of an arthropod ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Podomere

1. a podite [n -S] - See also: podite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Podomere

podocyte
podocytes
pododermatitis
pododynamometer
pododynia
podofilox
podogram
podograph
podogynium
podolite
podologist
podologists
podology
podomechanotherapy
podomere (current term)
podomeres
podometer
podophthalmia
podophthalmic
podophthalmite
podophthalmites
podophthalmous
podophylli
podophyllins
podophyllotoxin
podophyllotoxins
podophyllous
podophyllum

Literary usage of Podomere

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lessons in elementary biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1905)
"... and leaving a very small space around the enteric canal. In the limbs (Fig. 85) each podomere is acted upon by two muscles situated in the next proximal ..."

2. Lessons in Elementary Biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1900)
"2) podomere, and bearing at its free end two jointed plates, fringed with setae, ... The second podomere, counting from the proximal end, ..."

3. Natural History of the American Lobster by Francis Hobart Herrick (1911)
"Each joint or articulation is therefore crossed by tendons which belong to the proximal podomere and pull on the distal one. In the successive somites of ..."

4. An Elementary Course of Practical Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Newton Parker (1900)
"In the limbs the essential arrangement of the muscles in relation with the joints in Arthropods is more easily seen (Fig. 85): each podomere is acted upon ..."

5. A Manual of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1905)
"124,9); and the reproductive aperture is situated in the male on the proximal podomere of the fifth leg, in the female on that of the third. ..."

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