Medical term:
myectomy
myectomy
[mi-ek´to-me]surgical excision of a muscle.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
my·ec·to·my
(mī-ek'tō-mē),Excision of a portion of a muscle.
[G. mys, muscle, + ektomē, excision]
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myectomy
(mī-ĕk′tə-mē)n.
Surgical excision of a portion of muscle.
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my·ec·to·my
(mī-ek'tǒ-mē)Excision of all or part of a muscle.
[G. mys, muscle, + ektomē, excision]
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myectomy
The excision of a portion of a muscle. It is done to decrease the effective action of an extraocular muscle in the correction of strabismus. See myotomy; strabismus surgery.
Millodot: Dictionary of Optometry and Visual Science, 7th edition. © 2009 Butterworth-Heinemann
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