teres major

1. 1.

   teres muscle that moves the arm and rotates it medially

   Synonymsteres major musclemusculus teres major

   Broaderteres

Questions about teres major

What does teres major mean?

teres major means "teres muscle that moves the arm and rotates it medially".

What is another word for teres major?

Close synonyms include teres major muscle, musculus teres 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 teres major a common word?

teres major 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.