Scheme showing the manner in which each vertebral centrum is developed from portions of two adjacent segments. (Myotome labeled in upper right.)
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| colspan="2" |Transverse section of a human embryo of the third week to show the differentiation of the primitive segment. ao. Aorta. m.p. Muscle-plate. n.c. Neural canal. sc. Sclerotome. s.p. cutis-plate. ("Muscle-plate" is an older term for "myotome.")
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|Carnegie stage
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|Gives rise to
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|MeSH
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|Dorlands/Elsevier
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In vertebrateembryonic development, a myotome is a group of tissues formed from somites that develop into the body wall muscle. Each myotome divides into a dorsalepaxial part and a ventralhypaxial part. The epaxial muscle mass loses its segmental character to form the extensor muscles of the neck and trunk. The myoblasts from the hypaxial division form the muscles of the thoracic and anterior abdominal walls.
