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The buttocks allow primates to sit upright without resting their weight on their feet as four-legged animals do. Females of certain species of baboon have red buttocks that blush to attract males. In the case of humans, females tend to have proportionally wider and thicker buttocks due to higher subcutaneous fat and proportionally wider hips ...
Anatomical terminology [ edit on Wikidata ] The intergluteal cleft or just gluteal cleft , also known by a number of synonyms, including natal cleft and cluneal cleft , is the groove between the buttocks that runs from just below the sacrum to the perineum , [ 1 ] so named because it forms the visible border between the external rounded ...
The bulk of the gluteal muscle mass contributes only partially to shape of the buttocks. The other major contributing factor is that of the panniculus adiposus (fatty layer) of the buttocks, which is very well developed in this area, and gives the buttock its characteristic rounded shape. Exercise in general (not only of the gluteal muscles but ...
Steatopygia is the state of having substantial levels of tissue on the buttocks and thighs. This build is not confined to the gluteal regions, but extends to the outside and front of the thighs, and tapers to the knee producing a curvilinear figure. The term is from the Greek stéar (στέαρ), meaning "tallow", and pugḗ , meaning "rump".
Anatomical terminology [ edit on Wikidata ] The gluteal sulcus (also known as the gluteal fold , tuck , fold of the buttock , horizontal gluteal crease , or gluteal furrow ) is an area of the body of humans and anthropoid apes, described by a horizontal crease formed by the inferior aspect of the buttocks and the posterior upper thigh . [ 1 ]
the sacral region occurring at the end of the spine, directly above the buttocks. The regions of the back of the arms, from superior to inferior, include the cervical region encompassing the neck, the acromial region encompassing the shoulder, the brachial region encompassing the upper arm, the olecranal region encompassing the back of the elbow,
The FCC has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC network television stations related to the exposing of a woman's buttocks on a 2003 episode of NYPD Blue.
The term geriatrics comes from the Greek γέρων geron meaning "old man", and ιατρός iatros meaning "healer". However, geriatrics is sometimes called medical gerontology. Gonad – A gonad, sex gland, or reproductive gland [193] is a mixed gland that produces the gametes (sex cells) and sex hormones of an organism.