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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.
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