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Biceps
Definitions
- 1 Any muscle having two heads.
"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."
- 2 any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm) wordnet
- 3 Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
"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."
- 4 The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm. informal
"Today, Stonewall's flexed biceps measure 18 inches around."
- 5 A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia).
"Also it is advisable to distinguish this ( ˘ ˘ ) — ˘ ˘ — rhythm, where the princeps was probably shorter in duration than the biceps (as in the dactylic hexameter), from true (marching) anapaests, in which they were equal."
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Latin biceps (“double-headed, two-peaked”), from bis (“double”) + caput (“head”). See there for more details.
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