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Definition of Flexor muscle
1. Noun. A skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flexor Muscle
Literary usage of Flexor muscle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The variability in the size of the amplitude of the flexor muscle potential from
... with increases in the amplitude of the flexor muscle action potentials, ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1895)
"In apes the muscular fibres of the long flexor muscle of the thumb and of the
deep flexor of the fingers are more or less intimately blended, ..."
3. A Dictionary of medical terminology, dental surgery, and the collateral sciences by Chapin Aaron Harris, Ferdinand James Samuel Gorgas (1882)
"A flexor muscle ol'tlie toes, situated at the middle part of the foot. Flexor Brevis
Minimi Digiti Pedia A flexor muscle of the ..."
4. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene: Designed for the Colleges by Calvin Cutter (1858)
"68, The long flexor muscle of the great toe 59, The short extensor muscles ...
47, The short flexor muscle of the toes. The figures and letters on the left ..."