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Sartorius

Sartorius \Sar*to"ri*us\, n. [NL., fr. L. sartor a patcher, tailor, fr. sarcire, sartum, to patch, mend.] (Anat.) A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.

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sartorius

n. (context anatomy English) A long thin muscle that runs down the length of the thigh; the longest muscle in the human body.

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sartorius
  1. n. 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 body [syn: sartorius muscle, musculus sartorius]

  2. [also: sartorii (pl)]

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Sartorius

Sartorius may refer to:

  • Sartorius (surname)
  • Sartorius muscle, a long thin muscle that runs down the length of the thigh
  • Sartorius Point on Viskyar Ridge, Antarctica
  • Mr. Sartorius, a character in G.B. Shaw's Widowers' Houses
  • Sartorius (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX), a fictional character in the anime TV series
  • Dr. Alex Sartorius, alias Doctor Phosphorus, in the DC comic universe
  • Sartorius, a character in Stanislaw Lem's Solaris
  • Sartorius AG, a pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment manufacturer
  • "Sartorius", a song by Goldfrapp
  • Doctor Erasmus Sartorius, one of the characters in the video game Zork: Nemesis
Sartorius (surname)

The surname Sartorius may refer to:

  • Euston Henry Sartorius, British Major General
  • Georg Friedrich Sartorius, a German historian
  • George Rose Sartorius, British Vice-Admiral
  • Jacob Sartorius, American Internet personality and singer
  • Norman Sartorius, Croatian psychiatrist
  • Reginald William Sartorius, British Major General and brother of Euston
  • Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, a German geologist

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Usage examples of "sartorius".

Admiralty on the subject, and order that ship back to Plymouth Sound, when Captain Sartorius returns from London.

Caught between the two metal edges it had been chopped through and almost severed, the femur was sheared and the lower part of the leg dangled, connected only by some skin and the crushed remains of the rectus and sartorius muscles.

Shanghai: a step unit done up in Beaux-Arts ironmongery, a rowing machine cleverly fashioned of writhing sea-serpents and hard-bodied nereids, a rack of free weights supported by four callipygious caryatids-not chunky Greeks but modern women, one of each major racial group, each tricep, gluteus, latissimus, sartorius, and rectus abdominus casting its own highlight.

While the operations on land were going forward, Don Pedro was involved in a dangerous quarrel with his admiral, Sartorius, which resulted in his giving up the command of the fleet, and with his being replaced by another British officer, Captain Napier.

Sartorius is clearly a genius, a scientific mind of the first order: he invents, among other things, electroencephalography, transplanting and artificial organs.

From a mouth less adorable than the mouth of Miss Sartorius such an introduction might have been judged lacking in the elements of good form, but for more than two years now Kitty had known that whatever she did or said was perfectly correct because she did or said it.

Sartorius prefigures the many unsettling discoveries made by science in the years since 1871, discoveries which have undermined the old sources of meaning from which humans drew comfort land have yet to replace them).

What her redaction could not do immediately was restore the ruined sartorius and rectus femoris muscles of her upper leg.

Its only real function was to protect the floor from Gwendolyn's exercise equipment, which gleamed in the dim light scattering off the clouds from Shanghai: a step unit done up in Beaux-Arts ironmongery, a rowing machine cleverly fashioned of writhing sea-serpents and hard-bodied nereids, a rack of free weights supported by four callipygious caryatids-not chunky Greeks but modern women, one of each major racial group, each tricep, gluteus, latissimus, sartorius, and rectus abdominus casting its own highlight.