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Webster 1913 Edition
Myotome
My′o-tome
,Noun.
[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 protovertebrae; also, one of the protovertebrae themselves.
(c)
The muscular system of one metamere of an articulate.