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RHOMBODES

Volume 17 · 60 words · 1810 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 basis of the scapula and the spine dorfi; so called from its figure. Its general use is to draw backward and upward the subfascial portion of the basis scapulae.