Relating to or characteristic of branchiomeres; showing segmentation in gill-bearing regions.
From 'branchiomere' + '-ic' (adjective suffix). Describes the segmented organization found in the gill-bearing portions of fish and larval amphibians.
Branchiomeric segmentation is preserved in human embryos for a few weeks—your jaw, face, and neck still show faint echoes of our fishy ancestors' gill-segment plan.
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