Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun scalenus

1 sense of scalenus

Sense 1
scalenus, scalene muscle, musculus scalenus -- (any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib; involved in moving the neck and in breathing)
       => skeletal muscle, striated muscle -- (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)