English Explanatory Dictionary

sclerotome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A knife used in sclerotomy
A segmented mass of mesenchymal tissue, in a somite, that develops into the ribs

Word forms

sclerotome sclerotomes

Etymology

From sclero- + -tome.

Related words

sclerotomal sclerotomic

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