Relating to or exhibiting the properties of antimeres; having bilateral or mirror-image symmetry.
From antimere + -ic suffix. Used in biology and anatomy to describe organisms or structures showing mirror-image organization across a central axis.
Most animals are antimeric (bilaterally symmetric), but starfish and jellyfish are radial—they have symmetry around a central point instead. The switch from radial to antimeric design happened in evolution because bilateral animals could move faster and hunt more effectively.
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