TRICEPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does triceps mean? 

• TRICEPS (noun)
  The noun TRICEPS has 1 sense:

1. any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii)

  Familiarity information: TRICEPS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRICEPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("triceps" is a kind of...):

skeletal muscle; striated muscle (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "triceps"):

musculus triceps brachii; triceps brachii (the skeletal muscle having three origins that extends the forearm when it contracts)

 Context examples 

A small blood vessel arising from the brachial artery in the lower portion of the upper arm that supplies blood to the head of the triceps muscle.

(Inferior Profunda Artery, NCI Thesaurus)