teres minor

1. 1.

   teres muscle that adducts the arm and rotates it laterally

   Synonymsteres minor musclemusculus teres minor

   Broaderteres

Questions about teres minor

What does teres minor mean?

teres minor means "teres muscle that adducts the arm and rotates it laterally".

What is another word for teres minor?

Close synonyms include teres minor muscle, musculus teres minor. 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 minor a common word?

teres minor 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.