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PECTORAL MUSCLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two large muscles of the chest

Synonyms:

musculus pectoralis; pecs; pectoral; pectoral muscle; pectoralis

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("pectoral 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 "pectoral muscle"):

greater pectoral muscle; musculus pectoralis major; pectoralis major (a skeletal muscle that adducts and rotates the arm)

musculus pectoralis minor; pectoralis minor; smaller pectoral muscle (a skeletal muscle that draws down the scapula or raises the ribs)

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

chest; pectus; thorax (the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates)

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