Associations to the word «Myotomy»

Wiktionary

MYOTOMY, noun. (surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting or making an incision in a muscle or muscular organ.
MYOTOMY, noun. (dated) An anatomical dissection of a body, especially one used for instructional purposes.

Dictionary definition

MYOTOMY, noun. Surgical incision or division of a muscle.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope