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quadriceps

/ˈkwɒd.ɹɪ.sɛps/US/ˈkwɑːd.ɹəˌsɛps/

quadriceps noun: a muscle having four heads, especially the large extensor at the front of the thigh.

quadriceps: a muscle having four heads, especially the large extensor at the front of the thigh
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Noun

quadriceps (plural quadricepses or quadriceps)

  1. A muscle having four heads, especially the large extensor at the front of the thigh.
    • Lanctot slipped the tourniquet around the other, just under his groin, and twisted it tight, clamping quadriceps and hamstring hard to bone.2021 October 20, C. J. Chivers, “Fear on Cape Cod as Sharks Hunt Again”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2022
    Synonyms:
    quads

quadriceps meaning in Tamil

quadriceps in Tamil

நான்கு தலைத் தசை, நாற்றலைப்பி, நாற்றலையம்

Synonyms of quadriceps

Forms of quadriceps

pluralquadricepses
pluralquadriceps

Origin of quadriceps

Borrowed from Latin quadriceps, literally “four-headed”, from quadri- + -ceps, from quattuor (“four”) and from caput (“head”).

Words formed from quadriceps

Phrases with quadriceps

Questions about quadriceps

What does quadriceps mean?
Quadriceps means a muscle having four heads, especially the large extensor at the front of the thigh.
What is quadriceps in Tamil?
Quadriceps in Tamil is நான்கு தலைத் தசை, நாற்றலைப்பி, நாற்றலையம். See Quadriceps meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is quadriceps?
Quadriceps is a noun.
How do you pronounce quadriceps?
Quadriceps is pronounced /ˈkwɒd.ɹɪ.sɛps/ (UK).
What is the plural of quadriceps?
The plural of quadriceps is quadricepses.

Words near quadriceps in the dictionary

  1. quadricentennial
  2. quadricentennials
  3. quadricentesimal
  4. quadricep
  5. quadricephalous
  6. quadriceps
  7. quadriceps femores
  8. quadriceps femoris
  9. quadriceps tendon
  10. quadriceps tendons
  11. quadricepses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quadriceps (page history and authors); quadriceps (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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