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English Dictionary: segmental	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
segmental adj divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters Synonym(s): metameric, segmental, segmented
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Segmental \Segmen"tal\, a. 1. Relating to, or being, a segment. 2. (Anat. & Zo[94]l.) (a) Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental* duct; segmental papill[91]. (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) (Zo[94]l.) 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. See Illust. under {Sipunculacea}. {Segmental tubes} (Anat.), the tubes which primarily open into the segmental duct, some of which become the urinary tubules of the adult.