triceps
三头肌,肱三头肌,股三头肌,二头肌
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plural tri·ceps·es [trahy-sep-siz], /ˈtraɪ sɛp sɪz/, tri·ceps.Anatomy.
- : 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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Your triceps muscle, stationed on the underside of your upper arm, shortened.
One was through his bicep, and the other on his triceps, and it looked as though the bullet went straight through.
Baggy, 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.
In this case the biceps must exert two units of strength more than the triceps, that is, seven units.
"Set" the muscles of the arm by contracting the biceps and triceps with the utmost possible strength.
The triceps brachii is the chief antagonist of the biceps brachii.
And you find that the triceps has three origins high above its one attachment as a tendon, to give it a good strong pull.