Crossword-Solution: EXTENSOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Extensor | n. | A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to flexor. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “EXTENSOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Finger-straightening muscle | 1 answer |
| Limb muscle | 1 answer |
| MUSCLE serving to straighten out any part of body | 1 answer |
| muscle that extends a part of the body | 1 answer |
| TENDON, type of | 2 answers |
| Muscle | 23 answers |
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Sentences with EXTENSOR (5)
When well within reach, mindful that ‘_de l’audace_’ is no bad motto, in love and war, I suddenly placed my foot upon his chest, tightened the extensor muscle of my leg, and sent him heels over head.
The patient was discharged in five months, able to walk very well, but owing to the loss of the function of the extensor tendons the toes dragged.
One or more of the middle ribs on the right side were broken near the angle, and there was a large transverse rent in the quadriceps extensor.
Turner, has been expressly described by Theile as a rudimentary repetition of the extensor of the tail, a muscle which is so largely developed in many mammals.
But for the stronger intellects New England Calvinism became a potent spiritual gymnastic, where, as in the Swedish system of bodily training, one lifts imaginary and ever-increasing weights with imaginary and ever-increasing effort, flexor and extensor muscles pulling against one another, driven by the will.
Quotes with EXTENSOR (1)
Fracture of the patella may be produced by muscular action or by direct violence. When produced by muscular action, it occurs thus: a person in danger of falling forwards attempts to recover himself by throwing the body backwards, and the violent action of the quadriceps extensor upon the patella snaps the bone transversely across.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1981–2002).