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myonymy

/maɪˈɒnɪmi/

myonymy noun: nomenclature of the muscles.

Noun

myonymy (uncountable)

  1. Nomenclature of the muscles.
    • Chaussier's idea that the name of each muscle, for example, should accurately indicate all its relations, led him to frame a myonymy which is not only inapplicable to the same parts in many animals, but so ponderous as to be useless ;1885, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, page 271

Origin of myonymy

From myo- + -onymy.

Questions about myonymy

What does myonymy mean?
Myonymy means nomenclature of the muscles.
What part of speech is myonymy?
Myonymy is a noun.
How do you pronounce myonymy?
Myonymy is pronounced /maɪˈɒnɪmi/.

Words near myonymy in the dictionary

  1. myonicity
  2. myons
  3. myonuclear
  4. myonuclei
  5. myonucleus
  6. myonymy
  7. myopalladin
  8. myopathia
  9. myopathias
  10. myopathic
  11. myopathies

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