gluteus muscle

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Noun

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gluteus muscle - any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thighglute, gluteal muscle, gluteusskeletal 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 stripesbuttock, cheek - either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rumpgluteus maximus - the outermost of the three gluteal musclesgluteus medius - the middle of the three gluteal musclesgluteus minimus - the innermost of the three gluteal muscles