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Flexor

//ˈflɛksə(ɹ)// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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 groups."

  2. 2
    a skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint wordnet

Etymology

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

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