0 an area of the skin supplied by a single spinal nerve
1 a tool used to take very thin slices of skin from one part of the body to repair skin in another area
The eruption may involve more than one dermatome but rarely crosses the midline.
A prodrome of intense pain with pruritus, tingling, tenderness and hyperaesthesia occurs, followed by a painful eruption of grouped vesicles on an erythematous base within a sensory dermatome.
Generally the lesions of zoster are unilateral and located at the site most severely affected by varicella, most commonly either the facial or the mid-thoracic to upper lumbar dermatomes.
Referred pain usually involves a specific, referred location so is not associated with a dermatome.
The somites give rise to the vertebral column (sclerotome), associated muscles (myotome), and overlying dermis (dermatome).
Because the sclerotome differentiates before the dermatome and the myotome, the term "dermomyotome" refers to the combined dermatome and myotome before they too separate out.
Each somite has 3 divisions, sclerotome (which forms vertebrae), dermatome (which forms skin), and myotome (which forms muscle).
Somites give rise to the myotome (muscle tissue), sclerotome (cartilage and bone), and dermatome (subcutaneous tissue of the skin).
