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myonymy

myonymy

English

Noun

myonymy (uncountable)

  1. Nomenclature of the muscles.
    • 1885, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, page 271:
      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 ;