Extensor Synonyms and Antonyms

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A skeletal muscle whose contraction extends or stretches a body part
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. extensor muscle
Antonyms:
  1. flexor

Words Related to Extensor

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. soleus
  2. digitorum
  3. pollicis
  4. hallucis
  5. carpus
  6. quadriceps
  7. femoris
  8. supraspinatus
  9. adductor
  10. gastrocnemius
  11. abdominis
  12. gluteus-maximus

Extensor Sentence Examples

  • This runs down the anterior and outer side of the upper arm, and is attached to the proximal tendon of the extensor metacarpi radialis longus, a little below the outer condyle of the humerus.

  • It is a brief extension of the limb at the knee-joint, due to a simple contraction of the extensor muscle, elicited by a tap or other short mechanical stimulus applied to the muscle fibres through the tendon of the muscle.

  • If the sensory nerves of the extensor muscle be severed, the "jerk" is lost.

  • Stretching of the muscles antagonistic to the extensors - namely, of the flexor muscles - reduces the jerk by inhibiting the extensor spinal nerve cells through the nervous impulses generated by the tense flexor muscles.

  • The motor cells of the extensor muscles, when preoccupied by cerebral influence, appear refractory.

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