(n.) A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following case report illustrates such a case as well as its successful treatment using the BICEPS model.
(2) It mostly happens to strong men whose biceps muscle are contracted and overstretched unexpectedly.
(3) The investigation included the measurement of heart rate, bioelectrical muscle activity of the right and left M. biceps brachii and M. deltoideus and muscular endurance at 50% MVC.
(4) Bilateral electromyographic recordings from the biceps brachii and brachialis demonstrated that the amount of excitation overflow in the nonactive limb is between 10 percent and 20 percent of the maximal intensity of activity measured in the exercised limb.
(5) Chest and biceps circumferences increased 4.2% and 3.1%, respectively; abdomen and thigh circumferences did not significantly change; body fat decreased 16.8%; and body mass increased 2.3%.
(6) In severely impaired limbs, there was a marked shift in both the peak EMG angle and the angular domain of EMG activity for both biceps and triceps muscle groups, away from the normal elbow flexion-extension axis towards external humeral rotation and shoulder girdle elevation.
(7) Torque pulses (of 10 or 100 msec) injected randomly to load or unload the movements stretched or slackened the appropiate prime movers: biceps or triceps.
(8) Ram biceps femoris weights at market were greater than those of wethers (P less than .05).
(9) During the MONICA project, the survey of cardiovascular risk factor prevalence enabled us to measure the thickness of four skinfolds (biceps, triceps, subscapular, suprailiac) in 263 inhabitants of Lausanne (125 men, 138 women).
(10) The innervation of the biceps muscle was examined in regenerated and vitamin A-induced serially duplicated axolotl forelimbs using retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase.
(11) Biopsies of the biceps femoris and triceps muscles, when examined with the electron microscope, revealed evidence of sarcotubular and mitochondrial abnormalities.
(12) The method is exemplified by autoradiographs of human brain hemisphere ([ 3H]quinuclidinylbenzilate) and whole biceps muscle ([ 3H]alpha-bungarotoxin).
(13) In one series of experiments, single-fiber EMG electrodes recorded responses of single muscle fibers (i.e., motor units) in biceps femoris during the hind limb withdrawal, without and during electrical stimulation in the midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG) or lateral midbrain reticular formation (LRF).
(14) As compared to the mean values of normal gravity controls, centrifuged dogs showed no differences in femur length; cross-sectional area, outer and inner radii at mid-shaft of the femur; dry weights of the biceps femoris, quadriceps femoris, and gastrocnemius muscles.
(15) Treatment of diabetic mice with BRL 26830 a thermogenic, beta-adrenoceptor agonist, restored the weight, fibre diameter and fibre type composition of the biceps brachii to that of lean littermates.
(16) Threshold for biceps on each side was significantly higher than ADM, but there was no side-to-side difference.
(17) We report a case of post-traumatic compartment syndrome of the biceps-brachialis compartment after a minor injury.
(18) The aim of this study was to investigate the reflex effects on triceps surae and plantaris fusimotor neurones elicited by tonic stretch of the contralateral posterior biceps and semitendinosus (p.b.s.t.)
(19) Only in fragments of the biceps brachii muscle histological and histochemical investigations showed mitochondrial changes of the type of "ragged-red fibres".
(20) The tracer was injected either into the quadriceps muscles or into the posterior biceps muscles, thus labeling interneurons presynaptic to the quadriceps motoneurons (QINs) or interneurons presynaptic to posterior biceps motoneurons (PBINs).
Bicipital
Definition:
(a.) Having two heads or origins, as a muscle.
(a.) Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm.
(a.) Dividing into two parts at one extremity; having two heads or two supports; as, a bicipital tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) PHS adhäsiva and Frozen Shoulder had an even distribution of affected sides, whereas the right side was favoured from 1.7:1 (PHS calcarea and PHS destructiva) to 3.5:1 (isolated bicipital tendinitis).
(2) Causes of shoulder pain include supraspinatus tendinitis (the most common), bicipital tendinitis, impingement syndromes, supraspinatus rupture, subacromial bursitis, arthritis, frozen shoulder, and various conditions that refer pain to the shoulder.
(3) These children were selected from a total of 242,596 proportionally chosen with respect to demography of each of the twelve regions in the area with weight, height and bicipital, tricipital, subscapular and abdominal skin folds being measured.
(4) (d) The anterolateral branch of the anterior humeral circumflex vessels in the proximal bicipital groove adjacent to the biceps tendon mimics fluid in the tendon sheath.
(5) The fractured lesser tuberosity fragment included the bicipital groove, allowing the biceps tendon to sublux posteriorly preventing closed reduction, thus requiring a subsequent open reduction.
(6) In patients with joint effusions, the tendinous portion of the rotator cuff, glenoid labrum, and bicipital tendon can be readily visualized.
(7) Data directly obtained were: arm circumference and skinfolds thickness: bicipital, tricipital and subscapular.
(8) The conditions discussed in this article include subacromial bursitis, supraspinous and bicipital tendinitis, tennis elbow, de Quervain's syndrome, trigger finger, inflammation of the knee, ganglion, and muscle trigger points.
(9) On occasion bony injury directly to the bicipital groove may result in an inflammatory process in the tendon or even dislocation of the tendon if there was damage to the lesser tuberosity and subscapularis tendon.
(10) Extravasation of contrast medium from the bicipital tendon sheath and subscapularis bursa was considered to be due to over-distension of a joint with a reduced capacity.
(11) This enables calculation of the expected values (50 percentile), and the range of "allowable" variables (3 and 97 percentiles) of the bicipital, tricipital and subscapular cutaneous skinfold thickness, and of the arm's circumference in 6 to 14-year-old boys and girls.
(12) The other two are the axillary and bicipital groove views.
(13) The dislocated tendon can be identified medial to the bicipital groove, best seen on the axial and oblique coronal and sagittal images.
(14) In addition to repairing the cuff, the tendon was fixed in the bicipital groove in 7 of the 15 patients operated on.
(15) The painful periarticular conditions about the shoulder joint-calcific tendinitis, bicipital tendinitis, and frozen shoulder syndrome-are seen commonly in the general practice of medicine or in the practice of orthopedic surgery.
(16) From the point of anatomical features, the glenoid cavity is deepened and widened by the glenoid labrum, and the bicipital long head, which arises from the superior glenoid labrum, covers the humeral head anterosuperiorly and stabilizes the humeral head in the glenoid cavity.
(17) After local anaesthesia they incise the skin in the inner portion of the skinfold in the cubital fossa and, if necessary, extend it to the bicipital ridge.
(18) The maximal density of bicipital arteries can be found in the middle of the upper arm and slightly distal to the greater tubercle.
(19) The description of the level of insertion reveals interspecific variation is in the level of crural attachment, especially in species with a bicipital biceps femoris muscle.
(20) Small amounts of fluid were observed within the joint space and its recesses, the bicipital tendon sheath, and the subacromial-subdeltoid bursa.