flexor muscle

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   a skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint

   Synonymsflexor

   Broaderskeletal muscle

Questions about flexor muscle

What does flexor muscle mean?

flexor muscle means "a skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint".

What is another word for flexor muscle?

Close synonyms include flexor. 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 flexor muscle a common word?

flexor 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.