Flexor Definition

flĕksər
flexors
noun
flexors
A muscle that bends a limb or other part of the body.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • flexor muscle
Antonyms:

Other Word Forms of Flexor

Noun

Singular:
flexor
Plural:
flexors

Origin of Flexor

  • New Latin from Latin flexus past participle of flectere to bend

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From New Latin flexor, agent noun of flectō (“I bend”)

    From Wiktionary

Flexor Sentence Examples

  • The flexor perforans (9) is as usual inserted into the terminal phalange.

  • For this purpose the skin is tied by connecting fibres of white fibrillar tissue to the deep layer of the dermis along the lateral and lower edges of the palmar fascia and to the sheaths of the flexor tendons.

  • The flexor digitorum sublimis muscle arises fleshy from the long elastic band which extends from the inner humeral condyle along the ventral surface of the ulna to the ulnar carpal bone, over which the tendon runs to insert itself on the radial anterior side of the first phalanx of the second digit.

  • In porcupines and hares the tendons of the flexor digitorum longus and flexor hallucis longus are connected in the foot, while in the rats and squirrels they are separate, and the flexor digitorum longus is generally inserted into the metatarsal of the first toe.

  • Other inputs to the fast flexor were also potentiated.

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