musculus pectoralis

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Noun

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musculus pectoralis - either of two large muscles of the chestpecs, pectoral, pectoral muscle, pectoralisskeletal muscle, striated muscle - a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripesgreater pectoral muscle, musculus pectoralis major, pectoralis major - a skeletal muscle that adducts and rotates the armmusculus pectoralis minor, pectoralis minor, smaller pectoral muscle - a skeletal muscle that draws down the scapula or raises the ribschest, pectus, thorax - the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates