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BUTTOCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("buttock" is a kind of...):
body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)
Meronyms (parts of "buttock"):
glute; gluteal muscle; gluteus; gluteus muscle (any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh)
Holonyms ("buttock" is a part of...):
body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)
Context examples:
In children, they usually occur on the buttocks and lumbar area.
(Blue Nevus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
It most frequently occurs in the skin of the distal upper extremities, followed by the lower extremities, scalp, face, and buttocks.
(Blue Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)
A measurement from the high prominence of the head to the low prominence of the buttocks of a fetus or embryo during ultrasound.
(Crown to Rump Length Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)
A disorder characterized by marked discomfort sensation in the buttocks.
(Buttock Pain, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
A hamartoma characterized by localized malformation of one or more of the components of the dermis; presenting as clustered, slightly raised, pea-sized lesions distributed over the abdomen, back, buttocks, arms, or thighs.
(Connective Tissue Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)
A type of fetal presentation when the baby descends into the birth canal with hips, buttocks or its foot first during delivery.
(Breech Presentation, NCI Thesaurus)
A heavy cross-buttock at the end of the thirty-first round shook the breath from his body, and he came up for the thirty-second with the same jaunty gallantry as ever, but with the dazed expression of a man whose wind has been utterly smashed.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They had no tails, nor any hair at all on their buttocks, except about the anus, which, I presume, nature had placed there to defend them as they sat on the ground, for this posture they used, as well as lying down, and often stood on their hind feet.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Useful in assessing for developmental dysplasia of the hip or a leg-length discrepancy, this is the result obtained when the patient is placed in a supine position and the ankles are brought to the buttocks with the hips and knees flexed.
(Galeazzi Test Result, NCI Thesaurus)
Painful sensation in the buttocks.
(Buttock Pain, NCI Thesaurus)
