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sartorius

N กล้ามเนื้อ แคบ และ ยาว ที่ ทอด เฉียง ทาง ด้านหน้า ของ สะโพก  kam-nuan-keab-lea-yao

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SARTORIUS

Sar *to "ri *us, n. Etym: [NL. , fr. L. sartor a patcher, tailor, fr. sarcire, sartum, to patch, mend. ] (Anat. )

 

Defn: A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sartorius

sar to ri us |särˈtôrēəs sɑrˈtɔriəs |(also sartorius muscle ) noun Anatomy a long, narrow muscle running obliquely across the front of each thigh from the hipbone to the inside of the leg below the knee. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: modern Latin, from Latin sartor tailor (because the muscle is used when adopting a cross-legged position, earlier associated with a tailor's sewing posture ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

sartorius

sartorius |sɑːˈtɔːrɪəs |(also sartorius muscle ) noun Anatomy a long, narrow muscle running obliquely across the front of each thigh from the hip bone to the inside of the leg below the knee. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: modern Latin, from Latin sartor tailor (because the muscle is used when adopting a cross-legged position, earlier associated with a tailor's sewing posture ).