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Body Regions > Extremities > Lower Extremity > Buttocks

Preferred term

Buttocks  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Gluteal Region
  • Gluteal Regions
  • Region, Gluteal
  • Regions, Gluteal

Note

  • usually NIM as site

Scope note

  • Either of two fleshy protuberances at the lower posterior section of the trunk or HIP in humans and primate on which a person or animal sits, consisting of gluteal MUSCLES and fat.

In other languages

  • pakarat

    Finnish

  • clunis
  • natis
  • pakara
  • takamus
  • Stjärt

    Swedish

  • Bak
  • Rumpa

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002081

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