(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).
Muscle
Definition:
(n.) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion.
(n.) The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.
(n.) Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight.
(n.) See Mussel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(2) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(3) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(4) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(5) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(6) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
(7) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
(8) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(9) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
(10) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
(11) Peripheral eosinocytes increased by 10%, and tests for HBsAg, antiHBs, antimitochondrial antibody and anti-smooth muscle antibody were all negative.
(12) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(13) A definite relationship between intelligence level and the type of muscle disease was found.
(14) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
(15) In the absence of an authentic target for the MASH proteins, we examined their DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory activity by using a binding site (the E box) from the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, a target of MyoD.
(16) Only the approximately 2.7 kb mRNA species was visualized in Northern blots of total cellular and poly(A+) RNA isolated from cardiac ventricular muscle.
(17) The variation of the activity of the peptidase with pH in the presence of various inhibitors was investigated in both control and insulted muscle fibres.
(18) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
(19) This sling was constructed bu freeing the insertion of the pubococcygeus and the ileococcygeus muscles from the coccyx.
(20) Their effects on various lipid fractions, viz., triglycerides (TG), phospholipids, free cholesterol, and esterified cholesterol, were studied in liver, plasma, gonads, and muscle.