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A skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint
Answer for the clue "A skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint ", 6 letters:
flexor
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint [syn: flexor muscle ] [ant: extensor muscle ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, of muscles, Modern Latin, agent noun from stem of Latin flectere "to bend" (see flexible ). Alternative form flector attested from 1660s (see flexion ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flexor \Flex"or\, n. [NL.] (Anat.) A muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; -- opposed to extensor .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
Usage examples of flexor.
She informed me that she had practised archery as a hobby, and the effects of the sport were visible in a somewhat enlarged brachialis of the right arm and a firmness of the extensor and flexor muscles.
Tsia pulled the flexor from her harness and flicked it into a narrow, spikelike sword.
Barry Loach was understandably way out his depth on the theological turf of like Apologia and the redeemability of man though he was able to relieve a slight hitch in the brother's toss that was stressing his card-throwing arm's flexor carpi ulnaris muscle and so to up the brother's card-in-wastebasket percentage significantly but he was not only desperate to preserve his mother's dream and his own indirectly athletic ambitions at the same time, he was actually rather a spiritually upbeat guy who just didn't buy the brother's sudden despair at the apparent absence of compassion and warmth in God's supposed self-mimetic and divine creation, and he managed to engage the brother in some rather heated and high-level debates on spirituality and the soul's potential, not that much unlike Alyosha and Ivan's conversations in the good old Brothers K.
Fred raised the sights up to eye level, taking his time, drawing a deep breath as if he were in the finals of a Militia sharpshooter tourney, doing it all by the book, eyes on another platinum-iridium trophy for the collection on the mantelpiece, and all it took was one neatly placed shot dead center, nice as you please, one expert squeeze, all coming down to that, one constriction of a flexor muscle, and it was off to a watering hole with the boys and girls for soybeer and snappers.
It kept talking about extensors and flexors, the gastrocnemius muscle, and so on.