Definition of Miotome
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 protovertebræ;
also, one of the protovertebræ themselves.
(c) The muscular system of one metamere of an
articulate.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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