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What is a sartorius?

What is a sartorius? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) A long, thin muscle that runs down the length of the thigh; the longest muscle in the human body.
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In the ox and the horse the sartorius is still more definitely situated on the internal surface of the thigh.
This was occupied by sartorius with 600 blacks, the remainder returning into camp.
The sartorius and gracilis are displaced backwards, so that they descend behind instead of on the medial side of the knee.
The sartorius is one of the fleshy landmarks of the thigh, as the biceps is of the arm, and the sterno-cleido-mastoid of the neck.
The superficial branch supplies sensory innervation to the skin of the anterior thigh and motor innervation to the sartorius muscle.
I then went into the cabin and ordered breakfast, to prevent further discussion until the arrival of Captain sartorius.

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