SARTORIUS (sartorii)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: sartorii   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does sartorius mean? 

• SARTORIUS (noun)
  The noun SARTORIUS has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: SARTORIUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SARTORIUS (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

musculus sartorius; sartorius; sartorius muscle

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)

 Context examples 

One of two (deep circumflex and superficial circumflex) iliac arteries that supply the lower abdomen, inguinal lymph nodes, sartorius, and tensor fasciae latae.

(Circumflex Iliac Artery, NCI Thesaurus)