flexor
- n a skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint
- Significant evidence: one subject exercised her left forearm flexor, got a 76% increase in its strength, plus a 20% boost in its antagonist extensor muscle, and an amazing 130% in .
- Incisions are made on, the upper side, the flexor muscles on the under side cut eight to twelve inches back from the base.
- Stipulation: the horses cannot have set tails, a fashion which requires cutting the flexor muscles of a horse's tail, holding it in an iron "bustle" (except while in the ring or .