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n. - A skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint.

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  • Houston's Daryle Ward says his hip flexor is improved, so if you haven't cut him yet, go ahead and play him.
  • Strasburg left Saturday's game against the Phillies with what the team has described as a flexor tendon strain in his right forearm.
  • Strains of the flexor muscles of the region may cause it.
  • The tendon of the flexor longus communis digitorum muscle.
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