Myotomy vs Myomectomy - What's the difference?
myotomy | myomectomy |
(surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting or making an incision in a muscle or muscular organ.
* 1993 , Eugene M. Helveston, Surgical Management of Strabismus: An Atlas of Strabismus Surgery , page 235
(dated) An anatomical dissection of a body, especially one used for instructional purposes.
In surgery terms the difference between myotomy and myomectomy
is that myotomy is the surgical procedure of cutting or making an incision in a muscle or muscular organ while myomectomy is the removal of the uterine myomas.myotomy
English
(wikipedia myotomy)Noun
(myotomies)- If a hyperdeviation'' is present in an eye treated with such a myotomy''' of a horizontal rectus, the proximal ' myotomy should begin above to shift the insertion downward and make the horizontal rectus more effective as a depressor.