myonymy

/maɪˈɒnɪmi/

Etymology

From myo- + -onymy.

noun

  1. Nomenclature of the muscles.“Chaussier's idea that the name of each muscle, for example, should accurately indicate all its relations, led him to frame a myonymy which is not only inapplicable to the same parts in many animals, but so ponderous as to be useless ;”