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Tagma vs Metamerism - What's the difference?

tagma | metamerism |

As nouns the difference between tagma and metamerism

is that tagma is a specialized grouping of arthropodan segments, such as the head, the thorax, and the abdomen with a common function while metamerism is the segmentation of the body into similar discrete units.

tagma

English

(wikipedia tagma)

Noun

(tagmata)
  • (anatomy) A specialized grouping of arthropodan segments, such as the head, the thorax, and the abdomen with a common function.

    • metamerism

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (biology) The segmentation of the body into similar discrete units
  • (colorimetry ) The matching of apparent color of objects with different spectral power distributions.
    • Whilst the new paint was a good metameric match under natural light, it looked odd under a fluorescent light.
  • (chemistry) structural isomerism

    • Related terms

    *metamer *metamere *metameric