Crossword clues for pectoralis
pectoralis
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) A pair of muscles that lowers the wings of birds in flight
WordNet
n. either of two large muscles of the chest [syn: pectoral, pectoral muscle, musculus pectoralis, pecs]
Usage examples of "pectoralis".
He quickly dissected the clavicles and the pectoralis muscle group free from the chest wall.
It had ripped through the left pectoralis major just inside the shoulder, holed the scapula without shattering it, and emerged.
They laid open the pectoralis major and minor muscles without penetrating the chest walls.
After it ripped through my pectoralis mucho grande the bullet hit a rib, bounced around a bit, and clipped off a piece of my right lung.
This appears to have been done with a single cut from a sharp instrument, piercing the skin, connective tissues, and pectoralis major, exposing short lengths of the fourth and fifth ribs.
The slug, fortunately, had come from a rifle, and it had left a clean trail, entering his back at one side of the neck and angling down, doing something agonizing to a few bones, and coming out in the thick, magnificently developed pectoralis major muscle on the right side.
These were controlled by diathermy, but the pectoral vessels running down the border of pectoralis major were ligated.
Pistol-shot through the left pectoralis major and left deltoid muscles.