GLUTEAL MUSCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gluteal muscle mean? 

• GLUTEAL MUSCLE (noun)
  The noun GLUTEAL MUSCLE has 1 sense:

1. any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh

  Familiarity information: GLUTEAL MUSCLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLUTEAL MUSCLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

glute; gluteal muscle; gluteus; gluteus muscle

Hypernyms ("gluteal muscle" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gluteal muscle"):

gluteus maximus (the outermost of the three gluteal muscles)

gluteus medius (the middle of the three gluteal muscles)

gluteus minimus (the innermost of the three gluteal muscles)

Holonyms ("gluteal muscle" is a part of...):

buttock; cheek (either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump)

 Context examples 

One of the three gluteal muscles on the lateral surface of the pelvic bone that abducts and rotates the thigh located on the left side of the body.

(Left Gluteus Medius, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the three gluteal muscles on the lateral surface of the pelvic bone that abducts and rotates the thigh.

(Gluteus Medius, NCI Thesaurus)

Either of the fleshy mounds in the rear pelvic area of the human body formed by the gluteal muscles.

(Buttock, NCI Thesaurus)