n :  the ventral and mesial portion of a somite that proliferates mesenchyme which migrates about the notochord to form the axial skeleton and ribs sclero*tom*ic adj 
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  scle·ro·tium  scle·rot·o·my 
 
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