myotome
Sign in to savethumb|right A myotome is the group of muscles that a single spinal nerve innervates. Similarly a dermatome is an area of skin that a single nerve innervates with sensory fibers. Myotomes are separated by myosepta (singular: myoseptum). In vertebrate embryonic development, a myotome is the part of a somite that develops into muscle.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 41 inbound references to myotome, and connects out to lumbar nerve, somite and skin.
It is catalogued under the topic Neurology.
Vinony links it to 18 Wikipedia language editions.
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Structure
- Function
- List of myotomes
- Clinical significance
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right A myotome is the group of muscles that a single spinal nerve innervates. Similarly a dermatome is an area of skin that a single nerve innervates with sensory fibers. Myotomes are separated by myosepta (singular: myoseptum). In vertebrate embryonic development, a myotome is the part of a somite that develops into muscle.
==Structure== The anatomical term myotome which describes the muscles served by a spinal nerve root, is also used in embryology to describe that part of the somite which develops into the muscles. In anatomy the myotome is the motor equivalent of a dermatome.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “myotome” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.