Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Divided or dividing into myotomes; of or pertaining to a myotome.
- Of or pertaining to myotomy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a myotome or myotomes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
myotomes .
Etymologies
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myotome + -ic
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Examples
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In the thoracic region the primitive myotomic segments still persist as the intercostal muscles, but over the abdomen these ventral myotomic processes fuse into a sheet which splits in various ways to form the Rectus, the Obliquus externus and internus, and the Transversalis.
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The fascia lumbo-dorsalis develops between the true myotomic muscles and the more superficial ones which migrate over the back such as the Trapezius, Rhomboideus, and Latissimus.
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