Biceps vs Tendon - What's the difference?
biceps | tendon | Related terms |
(anatomy) Any muscle having two heads.
* 1901 , Michael Foster & Lewis E. Shore, Physiology for Beginners? , page 73
Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
* 1996 , Robert Kennedy & Dwayne Hines II, Animal Arms? , page 21
(informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.
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* 2005 , Lisa Plumley, Once Upon a Christmas? , page 144
(prosody) A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia)
* 1987 , Martin Litchfield West, Introduction to Greek Metre
* 2000 , James I. Porter, Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future , page 347
(anatomy) A tough band of inelastic fibrous tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment.
Biceps is a related term of tendon.
As nouns the difference between biceps and tendon
is that biceps is biceps while tendon is tendon.biceps
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The leg is bent by the action of the flexor muscles situated on the back of the thigh, the chief of these being called the biceps of the leg.
- The arm muscles are the show muscles of the physique. When someone asks to "see your muscles," they are most likely referring to your arms, and more specifically, your biceps .
- Biting her lip, she held his biceps for balance and waded farther.
- Also it is advisable to distinguish this ( ? ? ) — ? ? — rhythm, where the princeps was probably shorter in duration than the biceps (as in the dactylic hexameter), from true (marching) anapaests, in which they were equal.
- This means that in the metrical sequence
