Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Either of two broad, flat, triangular muscles running from the vertebral column to the humerus.
Wiktionary
- n. anatomy Either of the larger, flat, dorso-lateral muscles on the trunk, posterior to the arm, and partly covered by the trapezius on its median dorsal region.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a broad flat muscle on either side of the back
Etymologies
- From Latin lātissimus ("widest, broadest"), superlative oflātus ("wide, broad"), + dorsī, genitive of dorsum ("the back"). (Wiktionary)
- New Latin lātissimus dorsī : Latin lātissimus, superlative of lātus, wide + Latin dorsī, genitive of dorsum, back. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“Works upper back muscles trapezius, latissimus dorsi”
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