TERES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teres mean? 

• TERES (noun)
  The noun TERES has 1 sense:

1. either of two muscles in the shoulder region that move the shoulders and arms

  Familiarity information: TERES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TERES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two muscles in the shoulder region that move the shoulders and arms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

teres; teres muscle

Hypernyms ("teres" 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 "teres"):

musculus teres major; teres major; teres major muscle (teres muscle that moves the arm and rotates it medially)

musculus teres minor; teres minor; teres minor muscle (teres muscle that adducts the arm and rotates it laterally)

Holonyms ("teres" is a part of...):

shoulder (the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm)

 Context examples 

A rounded convex section on the outer side of the head of the humerus where the supraspinatus, infraspinatus and teres minor tendons attach.

(Greater Tuberosity, NCI Thesaurus)

Deep vein of the upper arm that forms at the junction of the radial and ulnar veins and ends at the inferior border of the teres major.

(Brachial Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

A nerve originated from the posterior cord of the brachial plexus within the axilla then passing through the quadrangular space to innervate the deltoid and teres minor muscles and terminating as the superior lateral brachial cutaneous nerve.

(Axillary Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)