Although worldwide poultry meat consumption is increasing, growth-related muscle abnormalities represent a limitation to the sustainability of chicken meat production due to their significant economic consequences and unfavourable impact on product quality and social acceptability (Kuttappan et al., 2012b). Several abnormalities have already been described in modern broiler strains, but there has been a notable increase in the prevalence of white striping (WS) and wooden breast (WB) syndromes over the past decade. Briefly, the WS defect corresponds to the appearance of white streaks mainly on the Pectoralis Major (PM) muscle of the fillet (Kuttappan et al., 2012b), while the WB defect corresponds to a hard, bulging PM muscle with a slimy appearance and petechiae in the most severe cases (Sihvo et al., 2014). Several studies have shown that rapid growth, high slaughter weight and breast meat yield as well as limited muscle glycogen store contribute to increase the incidence of such breast muscle abnormalities (Kuttappan et al., 2013a; Abasht et al., 2016; Alnahhas et al., 2016; Kawasaki et al., 2018. In recent years, many studies have been carried out to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the development of breast muscle abnormalities in broiler. Muscle histological characterizations have allowed a detailed description of injuries associated with the abnormalities. Combined with high-throughput molecular studies, they have speed up the understanding of the biological processes involved in their establishment (for review, Soglia et al., 2021). In particular, these studies have shown that WS and WB muscle abnormalities share several histological features with human myopathies (Dubowitz et al., 2020) that could be used for their diagnosis (Praud et al., 2020). The purpose of this opinion paper is to highlight the importance of using current knowledge on human myopathies and existing nomenclature used by muscle pathologists to accurately interpret histological observations of chicken muscle abnormalities and thus improve their diagnosis.