flexor
IPA: fɫˈɛksɝ
noun
- A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
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Examples of "flexor" in Sentences
- Painless nodules in the flexor tendon b.
- It is also known as the finger flexor reflex.
- The iliopsoas is the most powerful hip flexor.
- It is also known as the 'finger flexor reflex'.
- The brachialis is the strongest flexor of the elbow.
- The flexors allow for the actual bending of the fingers.
- It is a prolongation of the tendon of the Flexor carpi ulnaris.
- It innervates most of the flexor muscles in the forearm and hand.
- The thumb has one long flexor and a short flexor in the thenar muscle group.
- By inhibiting the flexor, these interneurons aid contraction of the extensor.
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