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Definition of Extensors
1. extensor [n] - See also: extensor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extensors
Literary usage of Extensors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"The extensors of the LEG. — The only muscles which extend the leg are those ...
extensors OF THE LEG. CLXXIII. The RECTUS FEMORIS, sometimes RECTUS CRURIS ..."
2. Technique of Operations on the Bones, Joints, Muscles and Tendons by Robert Soutter (1917)
"In transplantation for paralysis of the extensors of the wrist and fingers ...
The wrist flexors and extensors may be used for paralysis of the extensors of ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"Thus, by one set of muscles, the /«cor», the limbi are bent ; while by a contrary
set, the extensors, they are straightened. One set, termed the muscles of ..."
4. Practical Anatomy: An Exposition of the Facts of Gross Anatomy from the by John Clement Heisler (1920)
"... group of extensors, supplying branches to all of the extensors as its goes,
except those supplied by the trunk of the musculo-spiral, ie, the anconeus, ..."
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