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pectoralis minors

pectoralis minors is the plural of pectoralis minor.

Meaning of pectoralis minor

Noun

pectoralis minor (plural pectoralis minors or pectorales minores)

  1. The muscle that covers the heart organ.
    • Halsted had seen Volkmann remove not just the breast, but a thin, fan-like muscle spread out under the breast called the pectoralis minor.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 64

Questions about pectoralis minors

What is pectoralis minors the plural of?
Pectoralis minors is the plural of pectoralis minor.

Words near pectoralis minors in the dictionary

  1. pectoralgias
  2. pectoralis
  3. pectoralis major
  4. pectoralis majors
  5. pectoralis minor
  6. pectoralis minors
  7. pectorally
  8. pectorals
  9. pectorial
  10. pectoriloquial
  11. pectoriloquism

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