Definition of Glutaeus

1. a hip muscle [n GLUTAEI]

Medical Definition of Glutaeus

1. The great muscle of the buttock in man and most mammals, and the corresponding muscle in many lower animals. In man, the glutaeus is composed of three distinct parts, which extend and abduct the thigh, and help support the body in standing. Origin: NL. See Gluteal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glutaeus

gluonstrahlung
gluphosinate
glurge
glurgy
glushinskite
glusulase
glut
glut itis
gluta-
glutaconate
glutaconic
glutaconic acid
glutaconyl CoA decarboxylase
glutaeal
glutaei
glutaeus (current term)
glutamate
glutamate-ammonia ligase
glutamate-cysteine ligase
glutamate-semialdehyde dehydrogenase
glutamate-tRNA ligase
glutamate acetyltransferase
glutamate aminotransferase
glutamate decarboxylase
glutamate dehydrogenase
glutamate dehydrogenase (NADP+)
glutamate dehydrogenases
glutamate formiminotransferase
glutamate gamma-semialdehyde
glutamate permease

Literary usage of Glutaeus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"This covers the anterior part of the glutaeus medius, and is firmly attached ... It stands in marked contrast with the deep fascia over the glutaeus maximus ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"glutaeus maximus. Obturator interims. glutaeus medius. ... The glutaeus maximus, the most superficial muscle in the gluteal region, is a broad and thick ..."

3. The Anatomy of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1802)
"... of the ilium not occupied by the glutaeus major. It, like the other, is a fan-formed ... glutaeus ..."

4. Manual of practical anatomy, v.2 by Daniel John Cunningham (1914)
"This covers the .anterior part of the glutaeus medius, and is firmly ... It stands in marked contrast with the deep fascia over the glutaeus maximus, ..."

5. Atlas for Electro-diagnosis and Therapeutics by François Miramond de Laroquette (1921)
"Extensor of the thigh and the foot. Nerve : inferior gluteal. Motor point : middle of the buttock. NCCon.=8; PCCon.=i3-5. glutaeus ..."

6. A Laboratory Manual of Human Anatomy by Lewellys Franklin Barker, Dean De Witt Lewis, Daniel Graisberry Revell (1904)
"Pull the M. glutaeus maximus well outward and divide its aponeurosis of insertion downward for a distance of five to seven centimetres. ..."

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