PSOAS MUSCLES

  

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PSOAS MUSCLES

Specialty Definition: PSOAS MUSCLES

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Health

A powerful flexor of the thigh at the hip joint (psoas major) and a weak flexor of the trunk and lumbar spinal column (psoas minor). Psoas is derived from the Greek "psoa", the plural meaning "muscles of the loin". It is a common site of infection manifesting as abscess (psoas abscess). The psoas muscles and their fibers are also used frequently in experiments in muscle physiology. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Ancestral Language Translations: PSOAS MUSCLES

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

musculus psoas. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: PSOAS MUSCLES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-m-o-p-s-s-s-s-u"

-3 letters: coassumes, compasses, espousals.

-4 letters: ampoules, campuses, capsules, closeups, coassume, escalops, espousal, leucomas, massless, molasses, passless, passuses, scaleups, scopulae, scopulas, sepalous, soapless, spousals, upscales.

-5 letters: almuces, ampoule, ampules, assumes, capless, capsule, caseous, classes, clauses, closeup, compass, compels, copalms, copulae, copulas, couples, cupolas, escalop, lassoes, leucoma, macules, mescals, mousses, mucosae, mucosal, mucosas, muscles, mussels, oscules.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-m-o-p-s-s-s-s-u"
 

+4 letters: pseudoclassicism.

 

+5 letters: pseudoclassicisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PSOAS MUSCLES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 53 4F 41 53      4D 55 53 43 4C 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010011 01001111 01000001 01010011 00100000 01001101 01010101 01010011 01000011 01001100 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#83 &#79 &#65 &#83 &#32 &#77 &#85 &#83 &#67 &#76 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0053 004F 0041 0053      004D 0055 0053 0043 004C 0045 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5053493553247555337463953

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INDEX

1. Translations: Ancient
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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