biceps
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈbaɪ.sɛps/
biceps (plural biceps)
- (anatomy) Any muscle having two heads.
- 1901, Michael Foster & Lewis E. Shore, Physiology for Beginners, page 73
- The leg is bent by the action of the flexor muscles situated on the back of the thigh, the chief of these being called the biceps of the leg.
- 1901, Michael Foster & Lewis E. Shore, Physiology for Beginners, page 73
- Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
- 1996, Robert Kennedy & Dwayne Hines II, Animal Arms, page 21
- The arm muscles are the show muscles of the physique. When someone asks to "see your muscles," they are most likely referring to your arms, and more specifically, your biceps.
- 1996, Robert Kennedy & Dwayne Hines II, Animal Arms, page 21
- (informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.
- 2005, Lisa Plumley, Once Upon a Christmas, page 144
- Biting her lip, she held his biceps for balance and waded farther.
- 2005, Lisa Plumley, Once Upon a Christmas, page 144
- (prosody) A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia)
- 2000, James I. Porter, Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future, page 347
- This means that in the metrical sequence […] recited in ordinary speech rhythm, the princeps occupied a slightly shorter time than the biceps (5:6), and if a long syllable was used to fill the biceps it had to be dragged a little […]
- 2000, James I. Porter, Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future, page 347
- (the biceps brachii) biceps brachii, biceps cubiti
- (the upper arm) guns, pipes, pythons, upper arm
- (prosody) princeps
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