TERES MINOR MUSCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teres minor muscle mean? 

• TERES MINOR MUSCLE (noun)
  The noun TERES MINOR MUSCLE has 1 sense:

1. teres muscle that adducts the arm and rotates it laterally

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TERES MINOR MUSCLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Teres muscle that adducts the arm and rotates it laterally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

musculus teres minor; teres minor; teres minor muscle

Hypernyms ("teres minor muscle" is a kind of...):

teres; teres muscle (either of two muscles in the shoulder region that move the shoulders and arms)

 Context examples 

A nerve originated from the posterior cord of the brachial plexus within the axilla then passing through the quadrangular space to innervate the deltoid and teres minor muscles and terminating as the superior lateral brachial cutaneous nerve.

(Axillary Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)