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SARTORIUS
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Irregular inflected form: sartorii
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A muscle in the thigh that helps to rotate the leg into the sitting position assumed by a tailor; the longest muscle in the human body
Synonyms:
musculus sartorius; sartorius; sartorius muscle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sartorius" 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)
Derivation:
sartorial (of or relating to the sartorius muscle)