different between flexor vs flexure

English

Alternative forms

• flector (dated)

Etymology

From New Latin flexor, agent noun of flect? (“I bend”)

Noun

flexor (plural flexors)

1. A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
   • 2004, Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual

     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.

Translations

See also

• biceps
• extensor

Spanish

Adjective

flexor (feminine flexora, masculine plural flexores, feminine plural flexoras)

1. (anatomy) flexor

Further reading

• “flexor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Latin flexura.

Noun

flexure (countable and uncountable, plural flexures)

1. The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
2. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
   • British Quarterly Review

     varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered

3. (anatomy) A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
4. (zoology) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
5. (astronomy) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or subtracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.

Related terms

• flex
• flexural
• flexion

Translations

References

• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (2000).

Latin

Participle

flex?re

1. vocative masculine singular of flex?rus