Crossword-Solution: EXTENSORS 9 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

We have 8 clues for the answer “EXTENSORS”

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Muscles opposed to flexors. 1 answer
Straightening muscles 1 answer
Straightening muscles on limbs 1 answer
extending muscles 1 answer
rectifier muscles 1 answer
Stretching muscles 2 answers
Arm muscles 3 answers
Muscle type 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Three principal sets of muscles, called "flexors," bend the fingers and thumb, as in clenching the fist, and three sets--the extensors--extend them, as in straightening the fingers.
On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals Thomas H. Huxley 2001
The Indo-European race is then the highest by virtue of the acceleration of growth in the development of the muscles by which the body is maintained in the erect position (extensors of the leg), and in those important elements of beauty, a well-developed nose and beard.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various 2005
Movements often pass to fixed attitudes and postures of limbs or body, disturbing the normal balance between flexors and extensors, the significance of which as nerve signs or exponents of habitual brain states and tensions Warner has so admirably shown.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 2005
Thus the biceps serves as one of the antagonists to the triceps, and the various flexors and extensors of the limbs are antagonistic to one another.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell 2003
The radial nerve supplies branches to the three heads of the triceps brachii, to the common and lateral extensors of the digit and also to the skin covering the forearm.
Lameness of the Horse John Victor Lacroix 2005
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1948–2004).