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MUSCULUS PECTORALIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musculus pectoralis mean? 

MUSCULUS PECTORALIS (noun)
  The noun MUSCULUS PECTORALIS has 1 sense:

1. either of two large muscles of the chestplay

  Familiarity information: MUSCULUS PECTORALIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MUSCULUS PECTORALIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two large muscles of the chest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

musculus pectoralis; pecs; pectoral; pectoral muscle; pectoralis

Hypernyms ("musculus pectoralis" is a kind of...):

skeletal muscle; striated muscle (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musculus pectoralis"):

greater pectoral muscle; musculus pectoralis major; pectoralis major (a skeletal muscle that adducts and rotates the arm)

musculus pectoralis minor; pectoralis minor; smaller pectoral muscle (a skeletal muscle that draws down the scapula or raises the ribs)

Holonyms ("musculus pectoralis" is a part of...):

chest; pectus; thorax (the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates)


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