extensor muscle

1. 1.

   a skeletal muscle whose contraction extends or stretches a body part

   Synonymsextensor

   Broaderskeletal muscle

   Narrowerquadriceps

Questions about extensor muscle

What does extensor muscle mean?

extensor muscle means "a skeletal muscle whose contraction extends or stretches a body part".

What is another word for extensor muscle?

Close synonyms include extensor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is extensor muscle a common word?

extensor muscle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.