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/flˈɛkʃən/ Listen

noun

Flexion n.

The act of flexing or bending; a turning.

A bending; a part bent; a fold.

(Gram.) Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection. "Express the syntactical relations by flexion."

(Physiol.) The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; distinguished from extension.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flexion" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the menstrual blood from the uterus, which, consequently, becomes distended and painful. The pain may be constant, but is most acute when the uterus makes spasmodic efforts to discharge the menstrual blood. If these efforts prove successful, there is an interval of relief. Flexion or version of the womb may produce partial occlusion of the canal of the neck of the uterus, thus preventing the free flow of the menstrual fluid through it. Tumors located in the body or neck of the uterus often cause obstruction to the free ...

— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... sombre religious person makes even of his religious peace a very sober thing. Danger still hovers in the air about it. Flexion and contraction are not wholly checked. It were sparrowlike and childish after our deliverance to explode into twittering laughter and caper-cutting, and utterly to forget the imminent hawk on bough. Lie low, rather, lie low; for ...

— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... shaft and keeps it in perfect line. The bow hand may be lowered or raised to obtain the proper elevation and length of flight. The left arm is held rigidly but not absolutely extended and locked at the elbow. A slight degree of flexion here makes for a good clearance of the string and adds ...

— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope

... that the best results are obtained when those exercises which affect the extensor muscles chiefly are followed by those affecting the flexors; i. e., flexion should always be followed by extension, or vice versa. It is also advisable that a movement requiring a considerable amount of muscular exertion should be followed by one in which this exertion is reduced to a minimum. As a rule, especially in the setting-up exercises, one portion ...

— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss

... movement is continued into a rising movement, called the inverted wave. Waves may pass through all varieties of intervals, and may be either (1) equal, where the voice in both members passes through the same interval; or (2) unequal, where in one flexion the interval traversed by the voice is ...

— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education