Glū'te-ēs, n.

n. [See GLUTÆAL.] (Anat.) A muscle of the buttocks.

The name glutæus is applied to three different muscles: glutæus maximus, a large, thick, quadrilateral muscle, situated at the posterior part of the pelvis and at the upper and posterior part of the thigh, the office of which is to rotate the thigh outward, and to-assist in progression and in standing; glutæus medius, a broad, thick, radiated, triangular muscle, situated beneath the g. maximus, and serving as an abductor of the thigh, and also to turn it outward or inward; and glutæus minimus, a flat, triangular muscle with radiated fibers, situated beneath the g. medius, and performing the same offices as the other two.