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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:

Nouns denoting body parts

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)

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