TERES MINOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teres minor mean? 

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

1. teres muscle that adducts the arm and rotates it laterally

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TERES MINOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Teres muscle that adducts the arm and rotates it laterally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

musculus teres minor; teres minor; teres minor muscle

Hypernyms ("teres minor" is a kind of...):

teres; teres muscle (either of two muscles in the shoulder region that move the shoulders and arms)

 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)

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)