PECTORAL MUSCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pectoral muscle mean? 

• PECTORAL MUSCLE (noun)
  The noun PECTORAL MUSCLE has 1 sense:

1. either of two large muscles of the chest

  Familiarity information: PECTORAL MUSCLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PECTORAL MUSCLE (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 ("pectoral muscle" 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 "pectoral muscle"):

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 ("pectoral muscle" 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)

 Context examples 

This manifests as stimulation by the lead of non-cardiac structures such as the diaphragm, chest wall, or pectoral muscle.

(Extracardiac Stimulation, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)