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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 chest
Familiarity information: MUSCULUS PECTORALIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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