Flexor Synonyms and Antonyms

flĕksər
A skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. flexor muscle
Antonyms:
  1. extensor

Words Related to Flexor

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. pollicis
  2. supraspinatus
  3. adductor
  4. gastrocnemius
  5. hallucis
  6. femoris
  7. carpus
  8. soleus
  9. digitorum
  10. longus
  11. abdominis
  12. infraspinatus
  13. dorsiflexion
  14. glenohumeral

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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