Triceps

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  • noun. A large three-headed muscle running along the back of the upper arm and serving to extend the forearm.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Three-headed; tricipital; specifically, in anatomy, noting certain muscles which arise by three heads.
  • noun. A tricipital or three-headed muscle, which has a triple origin and proceeds to a single insertion; especially, such a muscle of the fore or hind limb, expressly named as in the following phrases.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any muscle having three heads.
  • noun. Specifically, the triceps brachii.
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  • noun. any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii)
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