Definitions for trapezius

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trapezius tra·pe·zi·us

Spelling: [truh-pee-zee-uh s]

IPA: /trəˈpi zi əs/

Trapezius is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 632 anagrams from letters in trapezius (aeiprstuz).

Definitions for trapezius

noun

1. a broad, flat muscle on each side of the upper and back part of the neck, shoulders, and back, the action of which raises, or rotates, or draws back the shoulders, and pulls the head backward or to one side.

Origin of trapezius

1685-95; New Latin, short for trapezius musculus trapeziform muscle

Examples for trapezius

The bullet tore through my voice box and larynx before lodging itself in my trapezius.

A not infrequent accompaniment is a shrug of one or both shoulders, due to synergic contraction of the trapezius.

Also, he lifted weights with his teeth to bulk up his neck and trapezius muscles.

The next muscles to become stiff and painful are those of the neck, especially the sterno-mastoid and trapezius.

In time other muscles compensate in part for the loss of the trapezius.

Bradford inserts a portion of the trapezius into the humeral insertion of the deltoid.