myonymy

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/maɪˈɒnɪmi/

noun

Nomenclature of the muscles.

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Meanings

nounmyonymy (uncountable)
  1. uncountableNomenclature 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

From myo- + -onymy.

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Chicago

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