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    SARTORIUS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: sartorii  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (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 bodyplay

    Synonyms:

    musculus sartorius; sartorius; sartorius muscle

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting body parts

    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)

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