Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That portion of the meta-merically segmented mesoderm of the vertebrate embryo which gives rise to the sustentacular or supporting structures, such as the bony, cartilaginous, and connective-tissue skeleton.
- noun A sclerous or scleroskeletal structure intervening between successive myotomes; a division or partition of muscles by means of intervening sclerous tissue, as occurs in the muscles of the trunk of various amphibians and fishes.
- noun A knife used in incising the sclerotic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the bony, cartilaginous, or membranous partitions which separate the myotomes.
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- noun surgery A
knife used insclerotomy - noun anatomy A segmented
mass ofmesenchymal tissue , in asomite , that develops into theribs
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In each of the provertebrae it is called the "sclerotome" (in opposition to the outlying muscular plate, the "myotome").
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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The cells of the segment become differentiated into three groups, which form respectively the cutis-plate or dermatome, the muscle-plate or myotome, and the sclerotome (Fig. 64).
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The cells of the sclerotome are largely derived from those forming the core of the myocl, and lie next the notochord.
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The lower or ventral part of each sclerotome (the inner and lower edge of the cube-shaped provertebra) divides into two plates, which grow round the chorda, and thus form the foundation of the body of the vertebra
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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_transfixio iridis_ of Fuchs; Antonelli's peripheral iritomy; Holth's formation of a cystoid cicatrix; Hern's operation; Terson's sclero-iridectomy; Abadie's ciliarotomy; Ballantyne's incarceration of iris method; Masselon's small equatorial sclerotomy; Simi's equatorial sclerotomy; Galezowski's sclero-choriotomy; excision of the cervical ganglion; removal of the ciliary ganglion; Querenghi's operation of sclero-choriotomy; Bettremieux's simple anterior sclerectomy; Heine's cyclodialysis; Herbert's wedge-isolation operation; Verhoeff's operation with a special sclerotome; Holth's sclerectomy with a punch-forceps;
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