'Myotome' definitions:
Definition of 'Myotome'
From: GCIDE
- Myotome \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 protovertebrae; also, one of the protovertebrae themselves. (c) The muscular system of one metamere of an articulate. [1913 Webster]