Definitions for triceps

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triceps tri·ceps

Spelling: [trahy-seps]

IPA: /ˈtraɪ sɛps/

Triceps is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 291 anagrams from letters in triceps (ceiprst).

Definitions for triceps

noun

1. 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.
2. a triceps muscle, especially the one at the back of the upper arm.

Origin of triceps

1570-80; Latin: three-headed, equivalent to tri- tri- + -ceps, stem -cipit- -headed, derivative of caput head

Examples for triceps

It is covered superiorly by the external head of the triceps.

The triceps brachii is the chief antagonist of the biceps brachii.

The triceps and radial reflexes were definitely exaggerated.

The muscle which constitutes it—the triceps cubiti—occupies, on the contrary, a greater area.

One was through his bicep, and the other on his triceps, and it looked as though the bullet went straight through.

The action of its antagonist, the triceps, may be studied in the same manner.

What origins and attachments must the triceps have to make it extend the arm?

The ulna must then be cleared, and the triceps divided at its insertion.

We then shall have an idea of what the triceps is in quadrupeds.

Your triceps muscle, stationed on the underside of your upper arm, shortened.