Anatomy def: Pectoralis majors (pec majors) are thick, paired, fan-shaped muscles, covering the front of the chest wall. Together they make up the bulk of the male chest and lie deep to the breasts in the female.
Outlander def: Paired chest muscles that Claire looooves to palpate! She is, after all, a health care professional and it is her medical duty to carefully evaluate Jamie’s chest anatomy (clearly, barfing on that ship had nay ill effect on his pec major muscles)! <G>
Learn about Jamie’s chest in Anatomy Lesson #4: “Jamie’s Chest” or “The 8th Wonder of the World!”
Read about Jamie’s chest in Dragonfly in Amber book:
I fought back the memory of our wedding night. He was a virgin; his hands had trembled when he touched me. I had been afraid too—with better reason. And then in the dawn he had held me, naked back against bare chest, his thighs warm and strong behind my own, murmuring into the clouds of my hair, “Dinna be afraid. There’s the two of us now.”
See the contours of Jamie’s pectoralis major muscles in Starz episode 201, Through a Glass, Darkly.
A deeply grateful,
Outlander Anatomist