Crossword clues for gluteus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gluteus \Glu*te"us\, n. [NL.] (Anat.) Same as Glut[ae]us.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"buttocks muscle," 1680s, from Modern Latin glutaeus, from Greek gloutos "the rump," in plural, "the buttocks."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) One of the several muscles of nates, which arises from a pelvis and inserted into a femur. 2 (context slang informal English) Short for gluteus maximus, the large muscles in the human buttocks.
WordNet
n. any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh [syn: gluteus muscle, gluteal muscle, glute]
[also: glutei (pl)]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "gluteus".
The Indians advised me approximately of the depth to which the shaft had penetrated and the direction it took, and judging from the situation of the cicatrix and all the circumstances it was apparent that the arrow-head had passed through the glutei muscles and the obturator foremen and entered the cavity of the bladder, where it remained and formed the nucleus of a stone.
No more getting up at five in the morning to drive to the studio, no more worrying about every new line on my face, no more exercises to save my gluteus medius, no more punishment.
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.
Father was a practical psychologist and believed that warming the glutei maximi with a strap drew excess blood away from a boy's brain.
In those happy Beatle days, the miniskirt had an innocence and a larkiness to it that seem lost in our Age of Less Innocence, with its crotch-grabbing singers and in-your-face jeans and well-oiled glutei maximi.
They rarely gained weight in the thighs or the stomach, only in the gluteus maximus, medius, and minimus, resulting in what her mother jokingly referred to as the gluteus muchomega.
I would not have recognized hubris if it bit me in the gluteus maximus.
The slug had gone at an angle through the right gluteus maximus, and it had been so undamaged in transit the exit wound was as small as the entrance wound.
You may hypothetically ignore him, pretend to a hypothetical lack of sensation in your gluteus maximus sinister - or is he left-handed?
Very lovely and I was thinking the most romantic thoughts when fierce fire pierced my gluteus maximus, and I shot straight up out of the water, yipping like a dog whose tail has been caught in the door.
He kneaded her cheeks, a bone-deep massage that passed straight through her gluteus maximus and into her core.
Elton had availed herself of the plastic surgeons to transplant some of her gluteus maximus to her pectoral area.
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.