flexor
A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
Noun
- A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
- Starting at the point of shoulder, use muscle squeezings, picking-ups, kneadings and gentle frictions, interspersed with effleurages, over the triceps muscle as well as the fleshy part of the flexor and extensor muscle...
Origin
From New Latin flexor, agent noun of flectō (“to bend”).
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Derived
flexor carpi radialis flexor carpi ulnaris flexor digitorum communis flexor digitorum profundus flexor digitorum superficialis lateroflexor