Definitions for extensor

extensor ex·ten·sor

Spelling: [ik-sten-ser, -sawr]
IPA: /ɪkˈstɛn sər, -sɔr/

Extensor is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 245 anagrams from letters in extensor (eenorstx).

Definitions for extensor

noun

  1. a muscle that serves to extend or straighten a part of the body.

Origin of extensor

1700-10; New Latin, equivalent to Latin extend(ere) to extend + -tor -tor, with -dt- > -s-

Examples for extensor

In some specimens, minute twigs come off the peroneal nerve near the middle of the thigh and enter M. extensor iliofibularis.

Consequently it is, in the horse, an extensor of the canon-bone.

The posterior fasciculus terminates on the small external toe, the fifth, of which it is in like manner the extensor.

The extensor tendons and the tendo Achillis are tense and prominent.

Minute twigs come off the peroneal nerve near the middle of the thigh and enter M. extensor iliofibularis in some legs.

extensor: that which extends or straightens out; applied to muscles.

Diminution of the knee-jerks was noticed, with what seemed to be an extensor response.

They can be extended only by activity of the extensor muscles.

Velpeau advised division of the extensor muscles of the tongue.

It is more marked in the extensor than in the flexor groups of muscles.

Word Value for extensor
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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