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Definition of Flexors
1. flexor [n] - See also: flexor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flexors
Literary usage of Flexors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technique of Operations on the Bones, Joints, Muscles and Tendons by Robert Soutter (1917)
"Operation for Contracted flexors of the Wrist and Fingers. Tendon Lengthening.—The
incision is made over the flexors and the tendons lengthened as described ..."
2. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1903)
"A small amount of dissection revealed the fact that this was due to the complete
absence of the superficial flexors of the thumb, viz., abductor pollicis, ..."
3. The Dublin dissector or Manual of anatomy by Robert Harrison (1854)
"The pronators and flexors arise chiefly from the internal condyle, ... The pronators
and flexors arising from the inner side of the fore arm, ..."
4. The Science and art of surgery v.1 by John Eric Erichsen (1881)
"Contraction of flexors and ... fracture of the humérus, with or without tonic
contraction of the flexors and pronators, has been described at page 416, Vol. ..."
5. The Anatomy of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1802)
"... a flexor digi- torum goes to the fingers ; and a flexor pollicis goes to the
thumb : Ail the flexors, and all the pronators, ..."
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