extensor muscle in a sentence
Examples
- It serves for the attachment of the interosseous membrane, which separates the extensor muscles in front from the flexor muscles behind.
- Motor pools that control flexor muscles are located dorsally to the ventral horn while those that control extensor muscles are located ventrally.
- This pressure would have compressed the muscles'blood vessels and nerves, reducing the range of motion of both the limb's flexor and extensor muscles.
- These investigators concluded that microgravity induced a basic change in motor control and coordination such that motor activation of extensor muscles was reduced.
- There are no extensor muscles at the'hinge joints'of the spider leg, instead joints extension is due to the haemocoelic blood pressure in the leg.
- The subsequent rapid tibial extension is driven mainly by the relaxation of the elastic structures, rather than by further shortening of the extensor muscle.
- At necropsy of this ewe it was found that the heart had multifocal pale areas and pallor of the long digital extensor muscle groups.
- He noted the constriction of the radial nerve by adhesions to the capsule of the radiohumeral joint and the short extensor muscle of the wrist.
- The extensor muscles in the forearm are extensor carpi ulnaris, extensor digiti minimi, extensor digitorum, extensor indicis, extensor carpi radialis brevis, extensor carpi radialis longus.
- This is because clenching the fist shortens the extensor muscles of the wrist which counter the action of flexor muscles of the wrist used in punching.