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Noun
/ˈbīˌseps/,
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biceps, plural;
  1. A muscle having two points of attachment at one end, in particular

  2. The large muscle in the upper arm that turns the hand to face palm uppermost and flexes the arm and forearm
    • - he clenched his fist and exhibited his bulging biceps
  3. The muscle in the back of the thigh that helps to flex the leg

  1. any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm)
  2. In human anatomy, the biceps brachii (simply biceps in common parlance) is a muscle located on the upper arm. The biceps has several functions, the most important being to rotate the forearm (supination) and to flex the elbow.
  3. Biceps is a point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (brevia). It is found in the dactylic hexameter and the dactylic pentameter.
  4. (BICEP) Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP) is a co-operative group of businesses coordinated by Ceres whose primary goal is to call on the U.S. government to pass progressive energy and climate legislation. BICEP currently has 18 members.
  5. (bicep) A supposed singular of biceps
  6. (Bicep) the muscle running along the inside of the upper arm which bends your arm at the elbow. Paddling a canoe (and a kayak, to some degree) exercises your biceps.
  7. (Bicep) Your strength or sense of being able. See: Left; Right; Body.
  8. The large muscle at the front of the upper arm that flexes the forearm.
  9. Latin bis = double, and caput = head, hence 2-headed, adjective - bicipital.
  10. and triceps are antagonist (have the opposite functions). Triceps (with three 'heads') extend the forearm so it can be held straight, while biceps (two 'heads') flex the forearm and draw it up.
  11. brevity, immediacy, contact, expectancy, proximity, and simplicity
  12. "Two-headed", from Latin (and thus "triceps" is "three-headed" and "quadriceps" is "four-headed"). But it might be that the "cep" dates back to Greek, "kephale" for "head", which also gave us "cephalic", meaning of or relating to the head. ...
  13. A group of muscles present in the upper forelimb of tetrapods, which are flexors of the elbow joint. In the hind limb, the biceps femoris is a flexor of the knee and an elevator of the femur.
  14. Muscle with two heads or points of origin