vastus externus

English

Noun

vastus externus (plural vasti externi)

  1. (anatomy) The vastus lateralis muscle; the largest and most powerful part of the quadriceps femoris, a group of thigh muscles.
    • 1994, Constance Garnet, transl., edited by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, Fathers and Sons, translation of Отцы и дети (Ottsy i dety) by Ivan Turgenev, published 1862, →ISBN, page 165:
      The bullet didn't go deep—one muscle, vastus externus, was grazed.

Translations
vastus lateralis — see vastus lateralis
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