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What is a sentence for gluteus maximus?
The gluteus maximus is the largest muscle in the human body and is responsible for hip extension and external rotation.
What is the name of the muscle in the buttocks?
The main muscle in the buttocks is the gluteus maximus. There are two other muscles in the buttocks as well - the gluteus medius and gluteus minimus - that help with various movements of the hip and thigh.
Which muscles attach to the greater trochanter?
The muscles that attach to the greater trochanter are the gluteus medius and gluteus minimus.
Where is the gluteus medius tendon inserted in the body?
The gluteus medius tendon is inserted into the greater trochanter of the femur in the body.
Why is the butt called gluteus maximus?
The term "gluteus maximus" comes from Latin where "gluteus" means buttock or rump, and "maximus" means largest or greatest. Therefore, the name refers to the largest muscle in the buttocks that is responsible for hip extension and thigh straightening.
How many bones in a gluteus maxmimus?
None, your gluteus maximum is is a muscle.
What is a gluteus maximum?
The gluteus maximus muscle is the strongest muscle in the human body. It is located in the buttucks and is responsible for the movement of the thighs and hips.
What are the functions of the gluteal?
The gluteus maximum is the largest muscle in your face and allows pigmy shrews to mate on flat ground.
Is the gluteus maximus the largest of the gluteus muscles in the cat?
The largest gluteal muscle in the cat is the gluteus medius as opposed to the misconception that it is the gluteus maximus. Though the gluteus maximus is very large in humans, this muscle is found to be small in the cat.
What is the smallest of the gluteal muscles?
gluteus minimus
What is the muscle that holds the gluteus maximus called?
Gluteus Medius
Plural of gluteus?
The plural form of the noun 'gluteus' is glutei.
What a thigh muscle moves?
The "glutes" including the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, gluteus minimus, and the tensor fasciae latae
What are the two muscles that rotate the thigh?
In human's, the two muscles that rotate the thigh are the gluteus medius and the gluteus minimus. The gluteus medius is located on the outer surface of the pelvis with the gluteus minimus underneath it.
What is the agonist for the gluteus medius?
The gluteus medius is an agonist for the lateral rotator group The gluteus medius is responsible forward propulsion and balance.
Where is the Gluteus Maximus on a body?
Gluteus Maximus is the correct name for your buttocks.
What 2 muscles abduct the thigh?
gluteus medius, and gluteus minimus
