triceps
a muscle having three heads or points of origin, especially the muscle on the back of the arm, the action of which straightens the elbow.
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How to use triceps in a sentence
Your triceps muscle engages to draw your arm behind you, stretching the soft tissues of the chest like a rubber band that then releases to spring the arm forward with free, elastic energy.
5 Moves to Engage and Strengthen Your Glutes and Triceps | jversteegh | January 9, 2022 | Outside OnlineYour triceps muscle, stationed on the underside of your upper arm, shortened.
Cool It on the CrossFit: What’s Rhabdomyolysis? | Kent Sepkowitz | October 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOne was through his bicep, and the other on his triceps, and it looked as though the bullet went straight through.
New Orleans Shooting: I Saw the Mother’s Day Parade Gunman | Jarratt Pytell | May 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBaggy, pedestrian clothing hides their lean muscles; there are no perceptible rock-like calves, no prominent triceps or pectorals.
A typical pair of opposed muscles are the biceps and triceps of the upper arm.
The Psychology of Singing | David C. Taylor
In this case the biceps must exert two units of strength more than the triceps, that is, seven units.
The Psychology of Singing | David C. Taylor"Set" the muscles of the arm by contracting the biceps and triceps with the utmost possible strength.
The Psychology of Singing | David C. TaylorThe triceps brachii is the chief antagonist of the biceps brachii.
Lameness of the Horse | John Victor LacroixAnd you find that the triceps has three origins high above its one attachment as a tendon, to give it a good strong pull.
Applied Psychology for Nurses | Mary F. Porter
British Dictionary definitions for triceps
/ (ˈtraɪsɛps) /
any muscle having three heads, esp the one (triceps brachii) that extends the forearm
Origin of triceps
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Scientific definitions for triceps
[ trī′sĕps′ ]
The muscle at the back of the upper arm that raises and lowers the forearm. The triceps has three points of attachment to bone at its origin.
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