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RHOMBOIDES

Volume 16 · 62 words · 1797 Edition

in geometry, a quadrilateral figure whose opposite sides and angles are equal, but is neither equilateral nor equiangular.

in anatomy, a thin, broad, and obliquely square fleshy muscle, situated between the base of the scapula and the spina dorsi; so called from its figure. Its general use is to draw backward and upward the subpinnate portion of the base of the scapula.