different between flexor vs plexor

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 Hellenistic Ancient Greek ?????? (plêxis, “stroke”) + -or, after flexor etc.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pleks?/

Noun

plexor (plural plexors)

1. (medicine, now rare) A hammer (or other instrument) used to test a person's reflexes. [from 19th c.]
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 71:

     Crowded in amongst his pocket's pens was the rubber head of a diagnostic plexor.