Myectomy Health Dictionary

Surgical removal of part or all of a muscle. Myectomy may be performed to treat severely injured and infected muscles or to remove a fibroid in an operation called a myomectomy. myel- A prefix that denotes a relationship to bone marrow (as in multiple myeloma) or to the spinal cord (as in myelitis). The prefix myelo- has the same meaning.

Removal of all or part of a muscle by surgery. It may be used to correct a SQUINT (caused by unbalanced eye muscles) or to remove a FIBROID from the muscular wall of the UTERUS.

n. a surgical operation to remove part of a muscle.