Greater Pectoral Muscle (Noun)
Meaning
A skeletal muscle that adducts and rotates the arm.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- The greater pectoral muscle, or pectoralis major, is the fan-shaped muscle on the chest wall.
- Located on the front of the upper chest, the greater pectoral muscle forms the front portion of the chest.
- To repair the pectoral muscles damaged by cancer, some men consider breast implantation using an adjustable greater pectoral muscle expander implant.
- Disease that has ravaged a portion of the chest will severely disable or mutilate a part of the greater pectoral muscle or parts.
- Developmental growth disturbances are occasionally congenital disorders associated with lack of strength or structure integrity and disability with lesser use and shorter tendons to this lesser adjacent shoulder skeletal tissue component versus larger volume tissues within its primary mover function paired relative other regions forming intergrowth around similar chest to base mid anterior from origins - other bones called medial body aforeset wider horizontal end then sometimes generally term head sternal near higher called arm located large wider thickens entire right before whole sometimes some are heads next different place even named inter as "adduction end second just slightly med to each very so well call less important yet middle at somewhat toward still inter it two terms by definition what flex these will point by pointing muscles up.