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triceps brachii

NOUN
  1. the skeletal muscle having three origins that extends the forearm when it contracts

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  • It passes medialward upon the Brachialis, and piercing the medial intermuscular septum, winds around the back of the humerus between the Triceps brachii and the bone, forming, by its junction with the profunda brachii, an arch above the olecranon fossa. VI. The Arteries. 4b. 2. The Brachial Artery
  • It pierces the medial intermuscular septum, and descends on the surface of the medial head of the Triceps brachii to the space between the medial epicondyle and olecranon, accompanied by the ulnar nerve, and ends under the Flexor carpi ulnaris by anastomosing with the posterior ulnar recurrent, and inferior ulnar collateral. VI. The Arteries. 4b. 2. The Brachial Artery
  • It differs in thickness at different parts, being thin over the Biceps brachii, but thicker where it covers the Triceps brachii, and over the epicondyles of the humerus: it is strengthened by fibrous aponeuroses, derived from the Pectoralis major and Latissimus dorsi medially, and from the Deltoideus laterally. IV. Myology. 7d. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Arm
  • The muscular branches (rami musculares) supply the Triceps brachii, Anconæus, Brachioradialis, Extensor carpi radialis longus, and Brachialis, and are grouped as medial, posterior, and lateral. IX. Neurology. 6b. The Anterior Divisions
  • Here it pierces the medial intermuscular septum, runs obliquely across the medial head of the Triceps brachii, and descends to the groove between the medial epicondyle and the olecranon, accompanied by the superior ulnar collateral artery. IX. Neurology. 6b. The Anterior Divisions
  • The major muscle mass of the brachium is the triceps brachii muscle.
  • Flexion of this, the humeroradioulnar joint (elbow), is restrained by the triceps brachii and extension is checked by the biceps brachii (flexor brachii). Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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