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The leg muscle that lets you stand, then betrays you on stairs the next day.
means Short for quadriceps — the big four-part muscle on the front of your thigh that straightens your knee.
from Clipped from 'quadriceps,' Latin for 'four-headed' — quadri- ('four') plus caput/cipitis ('head'), naming the muscle's four distinct heads (rectus femoris and the three vasti) that all converge on one tendon.
- actual count
- four muscles, not one, bundled as a team
- strongest one
- vastus lateralis, the outer slab you can flex
- campus meaning
- a grassy square where frisbees go to die
- shared job
- all four unite to straighten your knee