A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.

Latin = tailor; hence, sartorius muscles, which produce the posture in which tailors once worked, squatting on the floor.

a muscle that extends from the ilium‚ across the front of the thigh‚ to the inside of the knee so that it can rotate the leg outward [Go to source

Sartorius, known in Japan as , is a fictional character in the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX in Japan).