TRICEPS BRACHII

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does triceps brachii mean? 

• TRICEPS BRACHII (noun)
  The noun TRICEPS BRACHII has 1 sense:

1. the skeletal muscle having three origins that extends the forearm when it contracts

  Familiarity information: TRICEPS BRACHII used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRICEPS BRACHII (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The skeletal muscle having three origins that extends the forearm when it contracts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

musculus triceps brachii; triceps brachii

Hypernyms ("triceps brachii" is a kind of...):

triceps (any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii))

Holonyms ("triceps brachii" is a part of...):

arm (a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb)