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What is a psoas?

What is a psoas? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) Either of two muscles, the psoas major and psoas minor involved in flexion of the trunk
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The iliacus muscle, sharing a tendon with the psoas at the lesser trocanter, fans up and opens, lining the inside of each ilium.
An accessory spine behind the ileopectineal eminence occasionally provides an attachment site for the psoas minor muscle.
In one pound weight of the psoas muscles Fleming counted no less than 300 cysticerci.
In psoas abscesses the exudation extends beneath the sheath of the muscle or between the iliacus and the bone.
If the subjacent iliac and psoas muscles be implicated, the thigh is flexed upon the leg in decubitus.
The lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh passes from the lateral border of psoas major across the iliac fossa to pierce the inguinal ligament.

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