Below the edge of the pectoralis major, the swelling of the biceps (fig.
On each side of the bicepsis the external and internal bicipital furrow, in the latter of which the brachial artery may be felt and compressed.
The external popliteal nerve may be felt just behind the biceps tendon above the head of the fibula.
All one has to do to develop his biceps is to have faith that his biceps will develop, if Mrs. Eddy really speak by inspiration of God.
Set" the muscles of the arm by contracting the biceps and triceps with the utmost possible strength.
Muscular opposition does not imply that the entire structure is made up of parallel pairs of muscles, like the biceps and triceps, located on opposite sides of the same bone.
Suppose the biceps and triceps, for example, each to be contracted with five units of strength; then let some work be performed by the flexing of the forearm, requiring the exertion of two units of strength.
Contraction of the biceps flexes the forearm at the elbow; the contrary movement, extending the forearm, results from the contraction of the triceps.
A typical pair of opposed muscles are the biceps and triceps of the upper arm.
In this case the bicepsmust exert two units of strength more than the triceps, that is, seven units.
He tucked his head on the biceps of his right arm, with the hollow of the left snuggling Jerry in against his chest, and dozed off to sleep.
Ganglia in the region of the knee are usually situated over the interval between the femur and tibia, most often on the lateral aspect of the joint in front of the tendon of the biceps (Fig.
The biceps in the arm, and the sartorius in the thigh, furnish examples of muscles in which the separation between the ends may be considerable.
Rupture of the biceps of the arm may involve the long or the short head, or the belly of the muscle.
Calcification and Ossification inBiceps and Triceps.
Syphilitic contracture is a condition which has been observed chiefly in the later secondary period; the biceps of the arm and the hamstrings in the thigh are the muscles more commonly affected.
His chest was beginning to stand out in front of his shoulders, and his biceps were swelling a little.
At twenty-five years of age, before he took to gymnastics, his chest measurement was 34 inches, and the circumference of his biceps was twelve inches.
I remember his putting his hand up to feel of the wound on his head, and my watching the biceps move like a living thing under its white sheath.
It was the biceps that had nearly crushed out my life once, that I had seen strike so many killing blows.
He had gripped me by the biceps with his single hand, and when that grip tightened I wilted and shrieked aloud.
Then he rolled over on his side, his head resting on the biceps of the under arm, the forearm shielding his eyes from the sun.
His huge biceps tensed and the scrawny scientist was in the air, up and above the bowed head, then let down gently to rest across the broad shoulders of Luke Fenton.
The thick muscles of Luke's biceps tightened to hard knots under his black prison jacket.
And Dave went, without further word, both his biceps aching intolerably from the bruise of that tremendous grip.
But this time Dave had no night-stick to throw, and he was caught by the biceps of both arms in a grip so terrific that it made him groan with pain.
White as chalk, his left hand clenched round the biceps of his wounded arm, the lanky man swayed to his feet and staggered into the street.
The bicepsof the gentleman of the face immediately cuddled his ears.
Behind the knee the fibers of this muscle converge to form the strong tendon of insertion which passes through the biceps loop, under the tendon of origin of the m.
The origin of this muscle, which lies along the anterior edge of the femur, is fleshy from the entire length of the femur proximal to the level of attachment of the proximal arm of the biceps loop.
The biceps loop is tendinous and the distal end attaches to a protuberance on the posterolateral edge of the femur at the proximal edge of the external condyle.
Happy to make your acquaintance, Mr. Biceps Albert; and now you must both come and eat the Christmas porridge with us.
Two days before Christmas, Biceps Grimlund was sitting in his room, looking gloomily out of the window.
This is my friend and classmate, Albert Grimlund, alias Biceps Grimlund, and the strongest man in the whole school.
Ralph stopped, as he reached the clearing, to give Biceps an opportunity to overtake him; for Biceps, like all marine animals, moved with less dexterity on the dry land.
He offered hisbiceps to Holt's congratulatory fingers.
I do not ask of your heart, your liver, your biceps flexor.
Few men have the biceps so well developed as mine, and he went down as if he was shot.
The circumference of this man's bicepswas only 4 inches.
Likewise her feminine eye took in the clothes he wore, the cheap and unaesthetic cut, the wrinkling of the coat across the shoulders, and the series of wrinkles in the sleeves that advertised bulging biceps muscles.
He twisted his arm, rolled the biceps over with his other hand, and gazed underneath where he was least touched by the sun.
She had come back to his side, and she saw him double his arm at the elbow, the biceps crawling under his shirt-sleeve and swelling into a knot of muscle, heavy and hard.
I'll have to begin to exercise the biceps of Nell's heart--as soon as I get some strength into my own.
The biceps is the large front muscle of the upper arm.
A large biceps is the envy of many young men who regard it as the criterion of physical strength, and who often develop it out of all proportion to the rest of the body.
Climbing a ladder or rope, hand over hand, or lifting the body so that the chin may touch a horizontal bar overhead, are exercises better suited to later stages of biceps development.
Instead of stopping at the shoulder, as in the biceps exercises, push the dumb-bells high overhead.
The relation of the biceps and triceps to the pectoral muscles is so close that any exercise for the former will be helpful to the latter.
The displacement may be forward or backward, and the head of the fibula can be felt in its new position with the prominent tendon of the biceps attached to it.
The long tendon of the biceps may slip from its position between the tuberosities, and prevent reduction or favour re-dislocation, necessitating an open operation.
When broken above the insertion of the pronator teres, the upper fragment is flexed and supinated by the biceps and supinator, while the lower fragment remains semi-prone, and is drawn towards the ulna by the pronator quadratus.
The flexion may be corrected by lengthening the hamstring tendons, bringing the divided biceps tendon through an opening in the vastus lateralis, and attaching it to the rectus and to the patella.
The biceps tendon and ilio-tibial band are shortened and more prominent as a result of the approximation of their attachments, and they are also displaced laterally.
When the radius is broken above the insertion of the pronator teres, its upper fragment may be supinated by the biceps and supinator muscles, while the lower fragment remains in the usual semi-prone position.
The long tendon of the biceps is usually destroyed, the head of the bone is drawn upwards, and, after wearing through the capsule, rubs on the under surface of the acromion, which also becomes eburnated.
The eversion of the leg is probably associated with contraction of the biceps muscle.
The ulnar nerve lies in the hollow between the olecranon and the medial condyle, and the median nerve passes over the front of the joint, with the brachial artery and biceps tendon to its lateral side.
This joint may be dislocated by twisting forms of violence applied to the foot or leg, or by forcible contraction of the biceps muscle.
It is usually transverse, and there is often little or no displacement, the fragments being retained in position by the long tendon of the biceps and the long head of the triceps.
The inter-tubercular (bicipital) groove looks forward, and lies in a line drawn vertically through the biceps muscle.
At last Clayton saw the immense muscles of Tarzan's shoulders and bicepsleap into corded knots beneath the silver moonlight.
Morosely now did he make hisbiceps jump, and exhibit the splendours of his back-- his poses commanded no more than half the admiration evoked by hers.
All day he looked forward to the moment when he could mount the pedestal again and make his biceps jump, and exhibit the magnificence of his highly developed back to hundreds of wondering eyes.
He stopped, held his lips tightly shut upon the curses he would not speak, and Evadna felt his biceps tauten under her fingers as if he were gathering himself for a lunge at the old squaw.
She made a swift little rush at him, nipped his biceps between a very small thumb and two fingers, and stood back, breathing quickly and regarding him in a shamed defiance.
Keep the elbow in position, bring the forearm slowly to the table, and the biceps appears to become softer and smaller,--it relaxes.
For the upper arm, press with the fingers against the bone on the inner side, and just on the edge of the swell of the biceps muscle.
On the outer side note the tendons of the biceps of the leg, running down to the head of the fibula.
Thus the bicepsserves as one of the antagonists to the triceps, and the various flexors and extensors of the limbs are antagonistic to one another.
Throw one arm over the sharp edge of a chair-back, bringing the inner edge of the biceps directly over the edge of the chair.
The sartorius is one of the fleshy landmarks of the thigh, as the biceps is of the arm, and the sterno-cleido-mastoid of the neck.
Again, the weakness of the muscles of the back, and more especially in the case of the growing girl, is not a thing to be accepted as readily as the weakness of the biceps and the forearm muscles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "biceps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arm; biceps; elbow; forearm; muscle; wrist
