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Definition of Quadricep
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quadricep
Literary usage of Quadricep
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Navy Seal Physical Fitness Guide edited by Patricia A. Deuster (1998)
"Examples for Treating Painful Muscle Cramps in the Calf and quadricep Muscles
Calf Fractures quadricep A true fracture involves a break or chip in the hard ..."
2. Transactions of the Indiana State Medical Association by Indiana State Medical Association (1905)
"To its upper border is attached the aponeurosis of the quadricep ... it is covered
by extension of the aponeurosis of the quadricep and the patella bursa, ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1899)
"... C, sensory (afferent) fiber from the patellar tendon; D, motor fiber from cell
in the ventral horn to quadricep muscle; E, cell-body in ventral horn; F, ..."
4. A Practical treatise on fractures and dislocations by Lewis Atterbury Stimson (1907)
"... in one case, by getting the patient forcibly to contract the quadricep; and
then pressing upou the patella after it had been thus drawn upward. ..."
5. Handbook of Electro-therapeutics by Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1883)
"... atrophy of the quadricep*.—A man, aged thirty-five years. Had marked swelling
of the knee and difficulty in walking as the result of a fall (March, ..."
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