BICEPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biceps mean? 

• BICEPS (noun)
  The noun BICEPS has 1 sense:

1. any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm)

  Familiarity information: BICEPS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BICEPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("biceps" is a kind of...):

skeletal muscle; striated muscle (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biceps"):

femoral biceps; musculus biceps femoris (the biceps muscle of the thigh; it flexes the knee and rotates the leg laterally)

biceps brachii; biceps humeri; musculus biceps brachii (a muscle that flexes and supinates the forearm)

Derivation:

bicipital (having two heads or points of origin as a biceps)

 Context examples 

She had come back to his side, and she saw him double his arm at the elbow, the biceps crawling under his shirt-sleeve and swelling into a knot of muscle, heavy and hard.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Three main veins of the arm, the brachial artery, the medial nerve and the tendon of the biceps pass through this space.

(Antecubital Fossa, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of muscles including the biceps femoris, semimembranosus and semitendinosus that extend down the back of the thigh.

(Hamstring, NCI Thesaurus)

A vein between the biceps and supinator longus muscle in the forearm that unites with the radial vein to form the cephalic vein.

(Median Cephalic Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

He had gripped me by the biceps with his single hand, and when that grip tightened I wilted and shrieked aloud.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A vein between the biceps and pronator radii teres muscles that unites with the common ulnar vein to form the basilic vein within the forearm.

(Median Basilic Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

An axillary artery branch with distribution to the humeral head and biceps muscle.

(Anterior Circumflex Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

He twisted his arm, rolled the biceps over with his other hand, and gazed underneath where he was least touched by the sun.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I remember his putting his hand up to feel of the wound on his head, and my watching the biceps move like a living thing under its white sheath.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Likewise her feminine eye took in the clothes he wore, the cheap and unaesthetic cut, the wrinkling of the coat across the shoulders, and the series of wrinkles in the sleeves that advertised bulging biceps muscles.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)