noun
definition
In vertebrate embryonic development, a group of tissues formed from somites that develop into the body wall muscle.
Examples of myotome in a Sentence
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.