flexor

/flexor/

Thân thiện

The athlete strengthens her flexor muscles during a workout.

Definition

Noun: * A skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint: A flexor is a type of muscle that, when it contracts, decreases the angle between two bones at a joint, bringing them closer together. This action is called flexion.

Examples

• The flexor muscles in your arm allow you to bend your elbow.
• After the injury, she had to do exercises to strengthen the flexors in her wrist.
• The biceps brachii is a primary flexor of the forearm.

Advanced Usage

• Flexor reflex: A protective, involuntary reflex that causes a limb to withdraw from a painful stimulus by flexing the joints.
  • Touching a hot surface triggers a flexor reflex in your hand.
• Flexor tendon: The strong, fibrous cord that connects a flexor muscle to a bone, transmitting the force of contraction.
  • The surgeon repaired the lacerated flexor tendon in his finger.

Variants and Related Words

• Flex (verb): To bend a joint or to contract a muscle.
  • He can flex his fingers easily.
• Flexion (noun): The action of bending a joint or the state of being bent.
  • The normal range of flexion for the knee is about 135 degrees.
• Flexor carpi radialis / ulnaris (noun phrase): Specific flexor muscles of the wrist.
• Flexor digitorum (noun phrase): Specific flexor muscles of the fingers or toes.

Synonyms

• Bender (less common, more technical)
• Antonym: Extensor (a muscle whose contraction straightens or extends a joint)

Học thuật

Noun

1. a skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint

Từ đồng nghĩa

• flexor muscle