flexor

English

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flexor

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• flector (dated)

Etymology

From New Latin flexor, agent noun of flectō (“I bend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɛksə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

flexor (plural flexors)

1. A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
   • 2004, Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual:

     Starting at the point of shoulder, use muscle squeezings, picking-ups, kneadings and gentle frictions, interspersed with effleurages, over the triceps muscle as well as the fleshy part of the flexor and extensor muscle groups.

Derived terms

• flexor carpi radialis
• flexor carpi ulnaris
• flexor digitorum communis
• flexor digitorum profundus
• flexor digitorum superficialis
• lateroflexor

Translations

muscle

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 屈肌 (zh) (qūjī) Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: buigspier (nl) f Finnish: koukistajalihas French: fléchisseur (fr) m, fléchisseurs (fr) pl German: Beuger (de) m, Beugemuskel (de) m, Flexor (de) m Greek: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: hajlítóizom (hu) Ido: flexanto Occitan: flageire m, flageira f, feblaire m, feblaira f, gimblaire m, gimblaira f Polish: zginacz m Russian: сгиба́тель (ru) m (sgibátelʹ), фле́ксор (ru) m (fléksor) Swedish: flexor c, böjmuskel c Turkish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• biceps
• extensor

Spanish

Adjective

flexor (feminine flexora, masculine plural flexores, feminine plural flexoras)

1. (anatomy) flexor

Further reading

• “flexor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024