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Medical Term

glutaeus

also: glutei or glutaei

one of the three muscles of each buttock. The gluteus maximus shapes the buttock and extends the thigh, the gluteus medius and gluteus minimus abduct the thigh (i.e move the limb away from the body) while the former also rotates it.

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