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myotome

myotome


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Myotome  \My"o*tome\,  n.  [See  {Myotomy}.]  (Anat.) 
  a  A  muscular  segment;  one  of  the  zones  into  which  the 
  muscles  of  the  trunk,  especially  in  fishes,  are  divided; 
  a  myocomma. 
  b  One  of  the  embryonic  muscular  segments  arising  from  the 
  protovertebr[ae];  also  one  of  the  protovertebr[ae] 
  themselves. 
  c  The  muscular  system  of  one  metamere  of  an  articulate.