Crossword-Solution: FLEXION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Flexion | n. | The act of flexing or bending; a turning. |
| Flexion | n. | A bending; a part bent; a fold. |
| Flexion | n. | Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection. |
| Flexion | n. | The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “FLEXION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| hairpin bend | 1 answer |
| act of bending a joint or limb | 1 answer |
| MUSCLE movement which decreases angle at a joint | 1 answer |
| MOVEMENT which decreases angle at a joint | 1 answer |
| MOVEMENT that decreases the angle between bones | 1 answer |
| Bodybuilder's pose, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Bending of a joint | 1 answer |
| Bending movement | 1 answer |
| BONES, movement that decreases the angle between | 1 answer |
| BENT part | 1 answer |
| ANGLE between bones, movement that decreases the | 1 answer |
| bending down | 2 answers |
| BENT state | 2 answers |
| HINGE joint movement | 2 answers |
| deflexion | 2 answers |
| flexure | 4 answers |
| CONDYLOID joint-type movement | 4 answers |
| BALL and socket joint type movement | 5 answers |
| SADDLE joint type of movement | 5 answers |
| wrong turning | 5 answers |
| wrong course | 5 answers |
| MUSCLE movement, type of | 9 answers |
| arching | 11 answers |
| arcuation | 11 answers |
| inversion | 12 answers |
| Camber | 13 answers |
| Curvature | 22 answers |
| Cove | 34 answers |
| deflection | 45 answers |
| Swerve | 48 answers |
| Arch | 57 answers |
| Digression | 59 answers |
| Span | 77 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with FLEXION (5)
The left arm was abnormal, the flexion of the elbow imperfect, and the forearm terminated in a double hand with only rudimentary thumbs.
The most common was flexion of the right leg, which would also be drawn up toward the body and resting on the left leg.
The left hip was greatly distorted, not only in the direction of flexion, but there was also twisting of the femoral neck, simulating dislocation.
Despite this terrible accident the man made a perfect recovery, with the single exception of limitation of flexion in the left elbow-joint.
Extension and flexion at the ankle are only limited by the shortness of the ligaments; there is no opposition from the conformation of the bones.
Quotes with FLEXION (2)
Imagine you are Siri Keeton: You wake in an agony of resurrection, gasping after a record-shattering bout of sleep apnea spanning one hundred forty days. You can feel your blood, syrupy with dobutamine and leuenkephalin, forcing its way through arteries shriveled by months on standby. The body inflates in painful increments: blood vessels dilate; flesh peels apart from flesh; ribs crack in your ears with sudden unaccustomed flexion. Your joints have seized up through disuse. …
Story is more akin to the lines on your palm. No matter what your fortuneteller claims, the lines are not maps of your future. They are side effects of the flexion of the hand.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2017–2020).