A transitional population of migrating mesenchymal cells that derive from somites and that will become muscle cells. [ AEO:0001018 ]
Synonyms: myomeres
Term information
- XAO:0000315
- ZFA:0001056
- EHDAA:1727
- TAO:0001056
- EHDAA2_RETIRED:0003431
- VHOG:0001244
- AEO:0001018
- SCTID:344535001
- FMA:295658
- EHDAA:1739
- BTO:0000742
- EHDAA:1721
- NCIT:C34214
- AAO:0011067
- UMLS:C1513802 (ncithesaurus:Myotome_Region)
- EHDAA:1733
- Wikipedia:Myotome
- EMAPA:32841
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
The term 'myotome' is also used to describe the muscles served by a single nerve root / spinal segment - consider adding new class, myomere.
Portion of the somites giving rise to body wall muscle masses. Kimmel et al, 1995.[TAO]
In all vertebrates, the skeletal muscle of the body axis is chiefly derived from an early embryonic compartment, known as the myotome.[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- developing mesenchymal structure
- contributes to morphology of some muscle organ
- develops from some dermomyotome