flexor
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/ˈflɛksə(ɹ)/
Noun
A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
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Starting at the point of shoulder, use muscle squeezings, picking-ups, kneadings and gentle frictions, interspersed with effleurages, over the triceps muscle as well as the fleshy part of the flexor and extensor muscle groups.
Noun
a skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint
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