greater pectoral muscle

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   a skeletal muscle that adducts and rotates the arm

   Synonymspectoralis majormusculus pectoralis major

   Broaderpectoral

Questions about greater pectoral muscle

What does greater pectoral muscle mean?

greater pectoral muscle means "a skeletal muscle that adducts and rotates the arm".

What is another word for greater pectoral muscle?

Close synonyms include pectoralis major, musculus pectoralis major. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is greater pectoral muscle a common word?

greater pectoral muscle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.