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RHOMBOIDES

Volume 18 · 59 words · 1823 Edition

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

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