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triceps::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | skeletal muscle, striated muscle |
| Has types | musculus triceps brachii, triceps brachii |
Examples of triceps
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This move works triceps, upper back, shoulder and chest muscles, and abdominals.
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Don't push the forearm or wrist too far while you work on the biceps or triceps.
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Sheets left the game after the fifth inning with tightness in his right triceps.
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The 36-year-old lefty was bothered by triceps soreness early in spring training.
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Defensive end Derrick Burgess aggravated his triceps strain and sat out practice.
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Ben Sheets has soreness in his triceps that caused him to leave his last start.
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Lackey probably will miss at least the first month with a strained right triceps.
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Smith has not played since Week 6 after a triceps tendon in his left arm was torn.
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His physical therapists attache electrodes to his back, chest, biceps and triceps.
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- Any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii)
- The triceps brachii muscle (Latin for "three-headed arm muscle") is the large muscle on the back of the upper limb of many vertebrates. It is the muscle principally responsible for extension of the elbow joint (straightening of the arm).
- (tricep) A supposed singular of triceps
- Latin tres = 3, and caput = head; hence a 3-headed muscle.
- Muscle having three heads with a single insertion
