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Definition of Gluteus muscle
1. Noun. Any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh.
Generic synonyms: Skeletal Muscle, Striated Muscle
Group relationships: Buttock, Cheek
Specialized synonyms: Gluteus Maximus, Gluteus Medius, Gluteus Minimus
Derivative terms: Gluteal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gluteus Muscle
Literary usage of Gluteus muscle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals by Auguste Chauveau (1887)
"Superficial gluteus muscle. 2. Long vastus muscle. 3. ... 6. By iti body, to the— 1.
Superficial gluteus muscle. ..."
2. Elementary Anatomy and Physiology ...: For Colleges, Academies, and Other by Edward Hitchcock (1873)
"gluteus muscle.—A FIG. 143. A View of the Muscles on the Front of the Thigh.
1, Crest of the Ilium. 2, Its Anterior Superior Spinous Process. ..."
3. The Treatment of Syphilis with Salvarsan by Wilhelm Wechselmann (1911)
"In the organs that were examined, arsenic could not be found; but the gluteus
muscle, into which the injection had been made, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1877)
"Ou the left gluteus muscle just on the point is formed a pimple with hard red
circumference of the size of a penny, is very painful, when touched ..."
5. Syphilis by Loyd Oscar Thompson (1920)
"In another case dying thirty-six days after injection about 0.01 gram of arsenic
was found in the gluteus muscle. According to Wechselmann, following the ..."
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