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Teres

noun
1.
Either of two muscles in the shoulder region that move the shoulders and arms.  Synonym: teres muscle.



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"Teres" Quotes from Famous Books



... man, for whom the three Florentines, Lamberteschi, Niccoli, and Bracciolini, conspired to get up a forgery of Tacitus. It certainly never once comes out in the correspondence, in language that can be considered "totus, teres atque rotundus," that the man who was imposed upon by Bracciolini and his two accomplices, and who was shamefully deceived into paying the little fortune of five, six, or even more hundred gold sequins for a forgery, was their own most affectionate, intimate, ...
— Tacitus and Bracciolini - The Annals Forged in the XVth Century • John Wilson Ross

... this apex the subclavian vessels, A B, enter the axillary space. The base of the cone is below, looking towards the arm, and is formed in front by the pectoralis major, K H, and behind by the latissimus dorsi, O, and teres muscles, P, together with a dense thick fascia; at this base the axillary vessels, a b, pass out to the arm, and become the brachial vessels, a*b*. The anterior side of the cone is formed by the great pectoral muscle, H K, Plate 11, and the lesser pectoral, L I. The inner side is formed by ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise



Words linked to "Teres" :   striated muscle, skeletal muscle, musculus teres minor, shoulder



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