PSOAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psoas mean? 

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

1. either of two muscles of the abdomen and pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSOAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two muscles of the abdomen and pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("psoas" 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)

 Context examples 

The group of muscles in the torso that are closest to the spine and furthest from the skin such as the psoas muscle and the quadratus lumborum.

(Deep Abdominal Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)