vastus
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vastus
< Latin: vast
Example Sentences
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They also took a small biopsy of each participant’s vastus lateralis muscle, which stretches down the outside of the thigh.
From Science Magazine • May 19, 2022
Ariza didn’t slide right into the top unit simply because Otto Porter Jr. remains out with a Grade II strain of the vastus medialis in his right thigh.
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2018
The quadriceps femoris is made of four muscles: the rectus femoris, the vastus lateralis, the vastus medius, and the vastus intermedius, which together extend the knee.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The man who did most to open up the vistas of vastus lateralis is Andr� Courr�ges, 41, the brightest new star in the Paris firmament.
From Time Magazine Archive
The anterior fasciculus of this long vastus is none other than the posterior portion of the great gluteal which we have just been studying.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
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