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Webster 1913 Edition
Flexor
Flex′or
,Noun.
[NL.]
(Anat.)
A muscle which bends or flexes any part;
as, the
; – opposed to flexors
of the arm or the handextensor
. Webster 1828 Edition
Flexor
FLEX'OR
,Noun.
Definition 2024
flexor
flexor
English
Noun
flexor (plural flexors)
- (anatomy) A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
- 2004, Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual
- 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 groups.
- 2004, Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual
Translations
muscle