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Segmental adj.

Relating to, or being, a segment.

(Anat. & Zool.)

(a)

Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillae.

(b)

Of or pertaining to the segmental organs.

Segmental duct (Anat.), the primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives rise to the Wolffian duct and ureter; the pronephric duct.

Segmental organs.

(a)

(Anat.) The embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, consisting primarily of the segmental tubes and segmental ducts.

(b)

(Zool.) The tubular excretory organs, a pair of which often occur in each of several segments in annelids. They serve as renal organs, and often, also, as oviducts and sperm ducts.

Segmental tubes (Anat.), the tubes which primarily open into the segmental duct, some of which become the urinary tubules of the adult.

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Etymology of 'Segmental'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Segmental" Quotes from Famous Books

... wall is to one side of the middle, and here Raphael meets the new problem with a new solution. He places a separate picture in each of the unequal rectangles, carries a simulated cornice across at the level of the window head, and paints, in the segmental lunette thus left, the so-called "Jurisprudence" (Pl. 16), which seems to many decorators the most perfect piece of decorative design that even Raphael ever created—the most perfect piece of design, therefore, ...

— Artist and Public - And Other Essays On Art Subjects • Kenyon Cox

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