myonymy

English

Etymology

myo- +‎ -onymy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɪˈɒnɪmi/

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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 ;