MYOTOME

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A muscular segment; one of the zones into which the muscles of the trunk, especially in fishes, are divided; a myocomma.

2.
n.

One of the embryonic muscular segments arising from the protovertebræ; also, one of the protovertebræ themselves.

3.
n.

The muscular system of one metamere of an articulate.


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