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BUTTOCKS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Example:
are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
Synonyms:
tush; tooshie; tail end; tail; stern; seat; rump; rear end; rear; prat; posterior; nates; keister; hindquarters; hind end; fundament; fanny; derriere; can; buttocks; butt; buns; bum; bottom; behind; backside; ass; arse
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("buttocks" is a kind of...):
body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)
Holonyms ("buttocks" is a part of...):
body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)
Context examples:
It can cause sores on your genital or rectal area, buttocks, and thighs.
(Genital Herpes, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
A chronic autoimmune skin disorder characterized by the development of pruritic papulovesicular and bullous lesions in the elbows, knees, buttocks, and back.
(Dermatitis Herpetiformis, 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)
It usually grows in the legs, buttocks, feet, and trunk and usually presents as an ulcerative plaque.
(Eccrine Porocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The plastic surgeon can take skin, muscle, and fat from your lower abdomen, back, or buttocks.
(Breast Reconstruction, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
Painful sensation in the buttocks.
(Buttock Pain, NCI Thesaurus)
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)
An assessment for developmental dysplasia of the hip or a leg-length discrepancy, the patient is placed in a supine position and the ankles are brought to the buttocks with the hips and knees flexed.
(Galeazzi Test, NCI Thesaurus)
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)
