Dermatome
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Dermatome has three meanings:
- in surgery, a surgical instrument used for slicing skin in order to perform skin grafts. See dermatome (instrument)
- in anatomy, an area of skin which is innervated by afferent nerve fibers coming to a single posterior spinal root. See dermatomic area.
- in embryology, the lateral portion of a mesodermal somite, also called the cutis plate.