a narrow muscle of the thigh, the longest in the human body, that passes obliquely across the front of the thigh and helps rotate the leg to the cross-legged position
Origin of sartorius
Modern Latin from Late Latin sartor, a tailor (in reference, refer to the traditional cross-legged position of tailors at work) from Classical Latin sartus, past participle of sarcire, to patch from Indo-European base an unverified form serk-, woven substance, to hedge in from source Classical Greek herkos, a hedge
