Usually means: Four muscles extending the knee.
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  1. quadriceps: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quadriceps: Merriam-Webster
  3. quadriceps: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quadriceps: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  9. quadriceps: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  12. Quadriceps: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  14. quadriceps: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  1. quadriceps: Encyclopedia

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  1. quadriceps: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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▸ noun:  (anatomy) A muscle having four heads, especially the large extensor at the front of the thigh.

Similar:
quadriceps femoris, quad, musculus quadriceps femoris, triceps, all fours, quadrate, quadruplet, quadrisection, quadrual, quadriad, more...

Opposite:
hamstrings

Types:
rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius, vastus medialis, more...

Phrases:
quadriceps muscle, quadriceps femoris, quadriceps tendon, quadriceps stretch, quadriceps reflex, more...

Adjectives:
weak, right, isometric, left, human, strong, normal, active, medial, powerful, tight



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Similar:
quadriceps femoris, quad, musculus quadriceps femoris, triceps, all fours, quadrate, quadruplet, quadrisection, quadrual, quadriad, more...

Opposite:
hamstrings

Types:
rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius, vastus medialis, more...

Phrases:
quadriceps muscle, quadriceps femoris, quadriceps tendon, quadriceps stretch, quadriceps reflex, musculus quadriceps femoris, quadriceps muscle of thigh, quadriceps femoris muscle, quadriceps gait, more...

Adjectives:
weak, right, isometric, left, human, strong, normal, active, medial, powerful, tight



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