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triceps

/trahy-seps/US // ˈtraɪ sɛps //UK // (ˈtraɪsɛps) //

三头肌,肱三头肌,股三头肌,二头肌

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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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Examples

  • 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.