Meaning of myostracum | Babel Free

Definitions

Part of shell wall secreted at attachment of adductor muscles.

Examples

“At this place in the myostracum the smaller, second-order prisms […] range from two to 15 microns in diameter.”

“In contrast to the muscle scars, the growth tracks of which are marked by a radial stretch of myostracum, the growth track of the pallial line is the boundary surface between two shell layers.”

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