Anat. [med. and mod.L.: see prec.] A transverse muscle; one of the muscles, etc., that lie across various parts.
[1704. J. Harris, Lex. Techn., I. Transversalis Colli, is a Muscle of the Neck.
1827. Abernethy, Surg. Wks., I. 292. The internal oblique and transversalis muscles.]
1872. Humphry, Myology, 16. Between the external oblique and the transversalis.
