Meanings
plural flexors · alternative dated flector
- A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
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.
2004, Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- New Latinflexor
- Englishflexor
From New Latin flexor, agent noun of flectō (“to bend”).
More words from New Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 屈肌
- 屈肌 (qūjī)muscle
Dutch buigspier
- buigspiermuscle
Finnish koukistajalihas
- koukistajalihasmuscle
French fléchisseur, fléchisseurs
- fléchisseurmuscle
- fléchisseursmuscle
German Beuger, Beugemuskel
- Beugermuscle
- Beugemuskelmuscle
- Flexormuscle
Greek καμπτήρας
- καμπτήρας (kamptíras)muscle
Hungarian hajlítóizom
- hajlítóizommuscle
Polish zginacz
- zginaczmuscle
Russian сгиба́тель, фле́ксор
- сгиба́тель (sgibátelʹ)muscle
- фле́ксор (fléksor)muscle
Swedish flexor, böjmuskel
- flexormuscle
- böjmuskelmuscle
Cite this entry
flexor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flexor
“flexor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flexor. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flexor,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flexor.
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