quadriceps

Definitions

Examples

• It’s pretty obvious that your quadriceps and calves will be weaker right after you run 100 miles.

• The 32-year-old revealed in May that the injury that hampered him early in the season, when he regularly sat out the second game of back-to-backs, was a torn quadriceps.

• Most recently, the winger recovered from a quadriceps injury, which undermined his loan to Swansea City in the English second division, ended his prospects of a permanent move overseas and prompted a premature return to Washington.

• Backup point guard Ish Smith missed nearly seven weeks with a quadriceps injury.

• Rui Hachimura returned, too, after missing two games with right shoulder tightness, and backup center Robin Lopez played despite being a game-time decision with right quadriceps tightness.

• The tendon of the quadriceps femoris, at once drew the patella at least two inches above its normal position.

• Quadriceps, kwod′ri-seps, n. the great muscle which extends the leg upon the thigh.

• The chief physiological antagonistics of the glutei are the quadriceps femoris and tensor fascia lata.

• Upon tapping, the quadriceps tendon caused a brisk marked contraction of thigh muscles, followed by mild clonus.

• The quadriceps femoris is usually ruptured close to its insertion into the patella, in the attempt to avoid falling backwards.