pectoralis minor

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pectoralis minor muscle

pectoralis minor (plural pectoralis minors or pectorales minores)

The muscle that covers the heart organ.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 64:
  Halsted had seen Volkmann remove not just the breast, but a thin, fan-like muscle spread out under the breast called the pectoralis minor.

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Merriam Websters 3rd Revised Dictionary

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