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Flexor

noun
1.
A skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint.  Synonym: flexor muscle.






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"Flexor" Quotes from Famous Books



... thus shod could not have a corn, for a corn is an ulcer caused by the wings of the coffin-bone pressing upon a hard, unelastic substance. When the horse raises his foot the coffin-bone is lifted upward by the action of the flexor tendon; when his foot touches the earth the weight of the animal is thrown upon the same bone, and, if unsupported by the natural cushion of the foot, the action of the bone pressing the sensitive sole upon iron causes the bruise which, for lack of another name, is called ...
— Rational Horse-Shoeing • John E. Russell



Words linked to "Flexor" :   skeletal muscle, extensor, striated muscle



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