gluteus
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Origin of gluteus
1675–85; < New Latin < Greek glout ( ós ) the rump + Latin -eus adj. suffix
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It’s the least visible part of my body, yet I’ve had good reason lately to obsess about my gluteus maximus, my derrière, my whole imperfect situation back there.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026
So if you still have hope, get your soft, wide gluteus maximus off the couch, get informed and go vote.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2022
Gressel missed Wednesday’s game because of a gluteus injury.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2022
He threw all his pitches and never felt a tweak in the left gluteus muscle that sidelined him for a few days last week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2019
By the time he slashed, Hazel had ducked between his legs and jabbed her Imperial gold blade into his gluteus maximus.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
With Collins nursing hip and glutei injuries up on the sideline, the Seahawks relied on third- and fourth-string running backs DeeJay Dallas and Travis Homer late in the fourth quarter and overtime.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
It took Goodheart years to ferret out the connections: the shoulders' deltoids map to the lungs; glutei maximi in the butt to the prostate; and the psoas that run through the groin to kidneys.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trouble with your generation was that all they wanted to do was sit around on their glutei maximi and be entertained.
From Pagan Passions by Stanley, Robert
It is the thickest of the glutei, and gives to the region which it occupies a rounded form.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
It appears, that in those wonderful days the devil usually wore a black gown, with a black hat; and it was observed that, whenever he was preaching, his glutei muscles were as cold as ice.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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