Crossword clues for pectoral
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pectoral \Pec"to*ral\ (p[e^]k"t[-o]*ral), a. [L. pectoralis, fr. pectus, -oris the breast; cf. F. pectoral.]
Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the pectoral muscles.
Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs; as, a pectoral remedy.
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(Zo["o]l.) Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper.
Pectoral arch, or Pectoral girdle (Anat.), the two or more bony or cartilaginous pieces of the vertebrate skeleton to which the fore limbs are articulated; the shoulder girdle. In man it consists of two bones, the scapula and clavicle, on each side.
Pectoral cross (Eccl.), a cross worn on the breast by bishops and abbots, and sometimes also by canons.
Pectoral fins, or Pectorals (Zo["o]l.), fins situated on the sides, behind the gills. See Illust. under Fin.
Pectoral rail. (Zo["o]l.) See Land rail (b) under Land.
Pectoral sandpiper (Zo["o]l.), the jacksnipe (b) .
Girdle \Gir"dle\, n. [OE. gurdel, girdel, AS. gyrdel, fr. gyrdan; akin to D. gordel, G. g["u]rtel, Icel. gyr?ill. See Gird, v. t., to encircle, and cf. Girth, n.]
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That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.
Within the girdle of these walls.
--Shak.Their breasts girded with golden girdles.
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The zodiac; also, the equator. [Poetic]
--Bacon.From the world's girdle to the frozen pole.
--Cowper.That gems the starry girdle of the year.
--Campbell. (Jewelry) The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
--Knight.(Mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
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(Zo["o]l.) The clitellus of an earthworm.
Girdle bone (Anat.), the sphenethmoid. See under Sphenethmoid.
Girdle wheel, a spinning wheel.
Sea girdle (Zo["o]l.), a ctenophore. See Venus's girdle, under Venus.
Shoulder, Pectoral, & Pelvic, girdle. (Anat.) See under Pectoral, and Pelvic.
To have under the girdle, to have bound to one, that is, in subjection.
Pectoral \Pec"to*ral\, n. [L. pectorale a breastplate, neut. of pectoralis.]
A covering or protecting for the breast.
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(Eccl.)
A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person.
A clasp or a cross worn on the breast.
A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "pertaining to the breast," from Latin pectoralis "of the breast," from pectus (genitive pectoris) "breast, chest," from PIE root *peg- "breast."
early 15c., "ornament worn on the breast," from Middle French pectoral and directly from Latin pectorale "breastplate," noun use of neuter of adjective pectoralis (see pectoral (adj.)).\n
\nAs a shortened form of pectoral muscle, attested from 1758. Slang shortening pec for this is first recorded 1966. Related: Pectorals; pecs.\n
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the pectoral muscles. 2 Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs. 3 (context zoology English) Having the breast conspicuously colored. n. 1 Protective armor for a horse's breast. 2 A covering or protecting for the breast. 3 (context ecclesiastical English) A breastplate, especially that worn by the Jewish high person. 4 (context ecclesiastical English) A clasp or a cross worn on the breast. 5 A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs.
WordNet
n. either of two large muscles of the chest [syn: pectoral muscle, pectoralis, musculus pectoralis, pecs]
an adornment worn on the chest or breast [syn: pectoral medallion]
adj. of or relating to the chest or thorax; "pectoral organ" [syn: thoracic]
Wikipedia
Pectoral may refer to:
- The chest region and anything relating to it.
- Pectoral cross, a cross worn on the chest
- a decorative, usually jeweled version of a gorget
- Pectoral (Ancient Egypt), a type of jewelry worn in ancient Egypt
- Pectoralis major muscle, commonly referred to as "pectorals" or "pecs"
- Pectoralis minor muscle
- Pectoral fins of an aquatic animal, such as a whale or fish, located on both sides of the body
- Pectoral sandpiper, a bird
The pectorals of ancient Egypt were a form of jewelry, often represented as a brooch. These were mostly worn by richer people and the pharaoh.
One type is attached with a necklace, meant to be suspended from the neck but to lie upon the breast. Statuary from the Old Kingdom onwards shows this form.
A later form was attached as a brooch, with the thematic, iconographic function and statement outweighing its actual use as a piece of jewellery for adornment. The thematic statements were typically about the pharaoh or statements of ancient Egyptian mythology and culture. They are usually of gold with cloisonné inlays of gemstones.
Usage examples of "pectoral".
On the fifth day the line of demarcation extended to the spine of the scapula, laying bare the bone and exposing the acromion process and involving the pectoral muscles.
In the right pectoral and posterior aspect of the right axillary region, and over the buttocks, the affected skin hung in heavy pendulous flaps.
His uniform shirt was tight without the armor, and through the thin material she saw bulging biceps, powerful pectorals, and a host of manly muscles.
The clavicle and the two margins of the sternum had no connections whatever, and below the groove was a hard substance corresponding to the ensiform cartilage, which, however, was very elastic, and allowed the patient, under the influence of the pectoral muscles, when the upper extremity was fixed, to open the groove to nearly the extent of three inches, which was more than twice its natural width.
He unbuttoned successively in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along the medial line of irregular incrispated black hairs extending in triangular convergence from the pelvic basin over the circumference of the abdomen and umbilicular fossicle along the medial line of nodes to the intersection of the sixth pectoral vertebrae, thence produced both ways at right angles and terminating in circles described about two equidistant points, right and left, on the summits of the mammary prominences.
The pulp of Turkey Figs is mucilaginous, and has been long esteemed as a pectoral emollient for coughs: also when stewed and, added to ptisans, for catarrhal troubles of the air passages, and of other mucous canals.
Bishop Ailin now led the company, a scarlet cope sweeping from his shoulders and his pectoral cross hanging outside his black leather brigandine where it might be seen.
Get me the dalmatica and the paenula and the pallium and that silver pectoral, and then help me do something with my hair.
The point of the weapon had entered high on his chest where the massive pectoral muscle of the left wing was not thick, and gone clear through him to emerge beside the left scapular with about eight inches of point and shaft.
Weight training left his triceps and pectorals quivering spasmodically, as Antinous taunted and cursed him.
On it lay a figure so heavily draped in copper ornament that Adica could barely make out that she had hair and features beneath a headdress of beaten copper, a broad pectoral, armbands, bracelets and a wide waistband worked into the shape of two axheads crossing.
Their heads wore steel chamfrons, their chests, steel pectorals blazoned with the sun-clasping Eagle.
They were all intensely curious but all, even the children, remarkably discreet: yet at one point Stephen noticed a tall, martial man leave a group of Catholic Ghegs and come deliberately towards them, twirling his moustache with a hand adorned with a magnificent amethyst: he had two silver-mounted pistols in the belt of what looked very like a cassock and a musket or perhaps a fowling-piece - no, a musket -over his shoulder, a pectoral cross showing beneath its butt.
Every priest wore a striped headcloth with the mask of Haras gleaming from the front, and a falcon pectoral in gold with a matching belt across his snowy white robe.
These were controlled by diathermy, but the pectoral vessels running down the border of pectoralis major were ligated.