NOUN
- a flat muscle with transverse fibers that forms the anterior and lateral walls of the abdominal cavity
How To Use transversus abdominis In A Sentence
- This type of training engages and increases the activation of the core muscles consisting of pelvic floor muscles, transversus abdominis, multifidus, internal and external obliques, rectus abdominis, erector spinae (sacrospinalis) especially the longissimus thoracis, and the diaphragm. David Buer: Effects Of Training On Unstable Surfaces For Sports Performance
- The transversus abdominis is the deepest of the abdominal muscles and is oriented horizontally like something that resembles a cummerbund.
- During expiration, contraction of the rectus abdominis and transversus abdominis muscles draw the pubic plates dorsally, decreasing abdominal volume.
- It lies upon the diaphragm, the medial and lateral lumbocostal arches, the Psoas major, the Quadratus lumborum, and the tendon of the Transversus abdominis, the subcostal, and one or two of the upper lumbar arteries, and the last thoracic, iliohypogastric, and ilioinguinal nerves. XI. Splanchnology. 3b. The Urinary Organs