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flexor::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | flexor muscle |
| Type of | skeletal muscle, striated muscle |
Examples of flexor
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Meeks has missed five of the team's last nine games with a strained hip flexor.
From the sportingnews.com
Tight end John Carlson has a hip flexor issue and will be a game-time decision.
From the thenewstribune.com
Over and over again, Beimel tested the left hip flexor he strained two weeks ago.
From the washingtonpost.com
He spent most of the season injured, including a torn flexor tendon in his elbow.
From the stltoday.com
Defenseman Erik Johnson also was held out of the game with a hip-flexor strain.
From the stltoday.com
He missed nearly three months because of a torn flexor tendon in his right elbow.
From the sportingnews.com
Legace has a strained hip-flexor and thinks he'll be fine by Monday or Tuesday.
From the stltoday.com
The Warriors said April 21 he had a season-ending tear of his right hip flexor.
From the sacbee.com
The Wimbledon finalist pulled out of Indianapolis with that hip flexor injury.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
- Flexor muscle: a skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint
- (flexion) flexure: the state of being flexed (as of a joint)
- (flexion) inflection: deviation from a straight or normal course
- (flexion) act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased
- In anatomy, flexion is a position that is made possible by the joint angle decreasing. The skeletal (bones, cartilage, and ligaments) and muscular (muscles and tendons) systems work together to move the joint into a "flexed" position. ...
- (flexion) The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint. The counteraction of extension; Alternative spelling of flection
- (Flexors) These are your abdominal and iliopsoas muscles, which support the spine from the front. They also control the arch of your lower back and move the thigh in toward the body.
- (Flexion) Anterior exercises or trunk movements performed in the sagittal plane around a transverse axis.
- (Flexion) Bending the joint resulting in a decrease of angle
