different between flexor vs sinew

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.

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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 Middle English sineu, sineue, sinue (“tendon; ligament or other connective tissue; muscle; nerve; leaf vein”), from Old English seonu, sinewe, sinu (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinu, from Proto-Germanic *sinw?, *senaw? (“sinew”), from Proto-Indo-European *sn?h?wr? (“tendon, sinew”), from *(s)neh?- (“to twist (threads), spin, weave”).

The word is cognate with sinnow (“sinew”), Scots senon, sinnon, Saterland Frisian Siene (“sinew”), West Frisian senuw, sine (“sinew; nerve”), Dutch zenuw (“nerve, sinew”), German Sehne (“tendon, sinew; cord”), Icelandic sin (“tendon”), Swedish sena (“sinew”), Avestan ????????????????????????????? (sn?uuar, “tendon, sinew”), Ancient Greek ?????? (neûron, “tendon; nerve; cord”), Latin nervus (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), Sanskrit ??????? (sn?ván, “sinew, tendon; muscle”), Tocharian B ?ñor (“sinew”). Doublet of nerve and neuron.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?nju?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nju/
• Hyphenation: sin?ew

Noun

sinew (plural sinews)

1. (anatomy) A cord or tendon of the body.
2. A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument.
3. (figuratively) Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength.
4. (figuratively, often in the plural) That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay.
5. (anatomy, obsolete) A nerve.

Alternative forms

• sinnew

Coordinate terms

• (cord or string): twine

Derived terms

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Verb

sinew (third-person singular simple present sinews, present participle sinewing, simple past and past participle sinewed)

1. (transitive) To knit together or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.

Derived terms

• unsinew

Translations

References

Further reading

• tendon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Wenis, Wiens, Wines, sewin, swein, swine, we'ins, wenis, wines, wisen