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biceps

biceps (plural biceps or bicepses)

1. (anatomy) Any muscle having two heads.
   • 1901, Michael Foster & Lewis E. Shore, Physiology for Beginners?, page 73

     The leg is bent by the action of the flexor muscles situated on the back of the thigh, the chief of these being called the biceps of the leg.

2. Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
   • 1996, Robert Kennedy & Dwayne Hines II, Animal Arms?, page 21

     The arm muscles are the show muscles of the physique. When someone asks to ""see your muscles,"" they are most likely referring to your arms, and more specifically, your biceps.

3. (informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.
   • 1964 Dec, “Muscles are His Business”, Ebony?, volume 20, number 2, page 147:?

     Today, Stonewalls flexed biceps measure 18 inches around.

   • 2005, Lisa Plumley, Once Upon a Christmas?, page 144

     Biting her lip, she held his biceps for balance and waded farther.

4. (prosody) A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia)
   • 1987, Martin Litchfield West, Introduction to Greek Metre

     Also it is advisable to distinguish this ( ? ? ) — ? ? — rhythm, where the princeps was probably shorter in duration than the biceps (as in the dactylic hexameter), from true (marching) anapaests, in which they were equal.

   • 2000, James I. Porter, Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future, page 347

     This means that in the metrical sequence […] recited in ordinary speech rhythm, the princeps occupied a slightly shorter time than the biceps (5:6), and if a long syllable was used to fill the biceps it had to be dragged a little […]

biceps m., f., n., (genitive bicipitis); third declension

1. double-headed, having two heads
   • 8 CE, Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti Liber I, linea 65

     Iane biceps, anni tacite labentis origo

     Two-headed Janus, source of the quietly passing year

2. (of mountains) having two summits or peaks
   • ca. 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoseon, Book II, lines 221

     ardet in inmensum geminatis ignibus Aetne
     Parnasosque biceps et Eryx et Cynthus et Othrys

     Aetna blazes in immense doubled flames
     and twin-peaked Parnasus and Eryx, Cynthus and Othrys

3. (of swords) double-edged
   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Proverbia 5:4b

     acuta quasi gladius biceps

     as sharp as a two-edged sword

4. divided into two parts

Definizione dizionario biceps

	bicipite
	any muscle having two heads

Altri significati:

(anatomy) Any muscle having two heads.

(informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.

Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.

the upper arm, especially the muscles