SARTORIUS

(Lat.), n. m. Sasrt-or'i2-u (u4s). From sartor, a tailor. Fr., couturier, ilio-creti-tibial. Ger., Idngster Schenkelmuskel, Schneidermuskel. The tailors' muscle (so called because its action is to cro the legs after the manner of tailors at work); a muscle arising from the anterior superior spine of the ilium and the part of the bone immediately below it, running downward and inward over the front of the thigh, and inserted by an aponeurotic expansion of its tendon into the inner aspect of the head of the tibia near its tubercle, also into the capsule of the knee joint and the fascia of the leg. too; IT9, blue; U8, lull; U4, full; U, urn; U, like tt (German). [s. 443]