Myotome

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]