sclerotomen.
/ˈsklɪərəʊtəʊm/ Anatomy.
1. A sclerous element intervening between successive myotomes.
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wella1400
fontanelle?a1425
head?a1425
belly1591
venter1615
tail1719
myotome1857
sclerotome1857
myomere1868
muscle spindle1894
spindle1894
Z line1916
Z band1950
dyad1957
triad1957
1857 Goodsir in Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 5 122 To a segment of the sclerome I apply the designation Sclerotome.
1872 G. M. Humphry Observ. Myology 98 A piece of the lateral muscle with one of the myotomes dissected out to shew the sclerotome, or intermuscular septum.
1895 Philos. Trans. 1894 (Royal Soc.) A. 185 182 The original protovertebræ are now differentiated into sklerotomes..and into myotomes.
2. A knife used in incising the sclerotic.
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bronchotome1837
kiotome1842
myotome1846
tenotome1846
syringotome1848
fourchette1854
polypotome1857
tonsillotome1857
tracheotome1857
pile clamp1875
herniotome1876
oesophagotome1884
sclerotome1885
myringotome1895
ovariotome1895
turbinotome1900
viscerotome1934
leucotome1937
1885 Lancet 11 July 56/1 The eyeball is then rotated..and a lance-pointed sclerotome passed through the sclerotic.
Derivatives
scleroˈtomal adj.
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myomeric1889
sclerotomic1890
myotomic1893
intrafusal1894
myotomal1931
triadic1957
sclerotomal1971
1971 A. J. Waterman Chordate Struct. & Function vi. 211 (caption) Precartilage stage; further compaction of sclerotomal tissue with establishment of basic vertebral shape... Sclerotome stage; sclerotomal cells migrate from somite and form sclerotome.
1974 D. Webster & M. Webster Compar. Vertebr. Morphol. v. 87 The posterior half of one sclerotomal segment and the anterior half of the segment just behind it join together, so that each presumptive vertebra forms on a level overlapping two somites.
scleroˈtomic adj. of or relating to a sclerotome.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > parts of muscle > [adjective]
myomeric1889
sclerotomic1890
myotomic1893
intrafusal1894
myotomal1931
triadic1957
sclerotomal1971
1890 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Sclerotomic.
1925 J. S. Kingsley Vertebr. Skeleton 21 There is one great difference between Elasmobranches and higher Vertebrates; in the former cells from the sclerotomic elements..break through the elastica externa.., invade the notochordal sheath, and may chondrify there.
1971 A. J. Waterman Chordate Struct. & Function vi. 211 The sclerotomic cells form the perichordal tube. In addition, a mass of sclerotomic tissue migrates to the myoseptum to form the neural and haemal arch anlagen.
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