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Definition of Gluteal muscle
1. Noun. Any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh.
Generic synonyms: Skeletal Muscle, Striated Muscle
Group relationships: Buttock, Cheek
Specialized synonyms: Gluteus Maximus, Gluteus Medius, Gluteus Minimus
Derivative terms: Gluteal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gluteal Muscle
Literary usage of Gluteal muscle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"—Gluteal vein, the vein accompanying the gluteal artery.—Gluteal vessels, the
gluteal arteries and veins. II. n. A gluteal muscle, or ..."
2. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"Emerging from below the pyriform muscle, it descends beneath the great gluteal
muscle, behind the great sciatic nerve, and continues down the back of the ..."
3. Demonstrations of anatomy: Being a Guide to the Knowledge of the Human Body by George Viner Ellis (1861)
"The other portion (inferior) is directed au.la lower forwards over the middle of
the smallest gluteal muscle with 1"eco' the nerve, towards the anterior ..."
4. Elements of human anatomy: General, Descriptive, and Practical by Tobias Gibson Richardson (1854)
"It is covered behind by the great gluteal muscle, and in front by the femoral
aponeurosis, from the under surface • of which a large part of the muscle ..."
5. The Comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals by Auguste Chauveau (1887)
"principal branches are lost in the middle gluteal muscle. ... 356, 4,) crosses
the neck of the ilium above the small (or internal) gluteal muscle, ..."
6. Physiology and laws of health: For the Use of Schools, Academies, and Colleges by Edward Jarvis (1868)
"Gluteus maximus, or great gluteal muscle, straightens the hip. /. Gluteus medius,
or middle gluteal muscle, extends from the back part of the pelvis to the ..."
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