Myotome Definition

mīə-tōm
noun
The body-wall musculature in a single segment of primitive chordates and segmented invertebrates.
Webster's New World
One of the paired mesodermal masses in a vertebrate embryo from which the musculature develops.
Webster's New World
A knife for dividing muscle during surgery.
American Heritage Medicine

Other Word Forms of Myotome

Noun

Singular:
myotome
Plural:
myotomes

Myotome Sentence Examples

  • For example, the twenty-seventh myotome of the left side is placed opposite to the twenty-sixth myocomma of the right side.

  • The first dorsal spinal nerve coincides in position with the myocomma which separates the first myotome from the second on each side, and thereafter the successive dorsal roots pass through the substance of the myocommata on their way to the skin; they are therefore septal or intersegmental in position.

  • In addition to the cerebral eyespot there are large numbers of minute black pigmented bodies beside and below the central canal of theneuro chord, commencing from the level of the third myotome.

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