Crossword-Solution: EXTENSORS
We have 8 clues for the answer “EXTENSORS”
| Clue | Answers |
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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
EECZMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EXTENSORS (5)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1948–2004).