See Also: anterior cervical intertransverse muscles(medicine)
posterior cervical intertransverse muscles(medicine)
anterior cervical intertransversarii muscles(medicine)
intertransverse muscles(medicine)
thoracic intertransverse muscles(medicine)
lateral lumbar intertransverse muscles(medicine)
medial lumbar intertransverse muscles(medicine)
cervical rotator muscles(medicine)
cervical interspinales muscles(medicine)
posterior cervical intertransversarii muscles(medicine)

effeminate(1) (iou) and anterior cervical intertransverse muscles (medicine)


effeminate(1) (iou)



effeminate adjective & noun. LME.
[Latin effeminatus pa. pple of effeminare make feminine, from EF- + femina woman: see -ATE2.]
A. adjective.
(Of a man) having characteristics regarded as feminine or unmanly; delicate, feeble, self-indulgent. LME.
J. Braine Despite the manicure and the diamond ring he didn't look effeminate.
b. Characterized by or proceeding from unmanly weakness, softness, or delicacy. L16.
Gibbon Rome was..humbled beneath the effeminate luxury of Oriental despotism.
c. Gentle, tender, compassionate. Only in L16.
Shakespeare Richard III Your tenderness of heart And gentle, kind, effeminate remorse.
Excessively amorous; addicted to womanizing. L15-L16.
b. noun. An effeminate man. L16.
effeminately adverb E16.
effeminateness noun L16.

anterior cervical intertransverse muscles (medicine)


anterior cervical intertransverse muscles -->
anterior cervical intertransversarii muscles
Origin, anterior tubercle of cervical transverse process; insertion, anterior tubercle of next superior transverse process; action, abducts cervical vertebrae; nerve supply, ventral branch of cervical nerves.

Synonym: musculi intertransversarii anteriores cervicis, anterior cervical intertransverse muscles.