Wiktionary
n. The large muscle that covers the chest and ribs.
WordNet
n. a skeletal muscle that adducts and rotates the arm [syn: musculus pectoralis major, greater pectoral muscle]
Usage examples of "pectoralis major".
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.
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.
It appears that the pectoralis minor and pectoralis major are separated from the external thoracic cavity, the external and internal in.
Alba nestled her head against her husband's new bulging pectoralis major and let him carry her back to their private stateroom.
I'd arrive at eight in the morning, three days a week, and warm up for fifteen minutes, then launch into a series of exercises designed to strengthen and condition my left deltoid, pectoralis major, biceps, triceps, and anything else that had gone awry since I'd had the snot beaten out of me and had intersected the flight path of a .