Biceps

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Biceps \Bi"ceps\, n. [L., two-headed; bis twice + caput head.
     See {Capital}.] (Anat.)
     A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly
     to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  biceps
       n : any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the
           muscle that flexes the forearm)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "biceps":
     adductor, arm, buccinator, elbow, forearm, gemellus,
     gluteus maximus, infraspinatus, intercostal, latissimus dorsi,
     levator, masseter, mentalis, mylohyoid, nasalis, oblique,
     occipitalis, omohyoid, pectineus, pectoralis, peroneus, sphincter,
     tensor, trapezius, triceps, upper arm, wrist