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flexorplasty

flexorplasty noun: any of various surgical treatments for weakness or limited action of a flexor muscle.

Noun

flexorplasty (countable and uncountable, plural flexorplasties)

  1. Any of various surgical treatments for weakness or limited action of a flexor muscle.
    • This flexorplasty was devised by Arthur Steindler in 1918.2000, Hideo Kawai, Brachial Plexus Palsy, page 264
    • Carroll and Gartland noted that approximately half of the 23 patients who were improved by the flexorplasty had pronation defects.2009, Bernard F. Morrey, Joaquin Sanchez-Sotelo, The Elbow and Its Disorders, page 965

Forms of flexorplasty

pluralflexorplasties

Origin of flexorplasty

From flexor + -plasty.

Questions about flexorplasty

What does flexorplasty mean?
Flexorplasty means any of various surgical treatments for weakness or limited action of a flexor muscle.
What part of speech is flexorplasty?
Flexorplasty is a noun.
What is the plural of flexorplasty?
The plural of flexorplasty is flexorplasties.

Words near flexorplasty in the dictionary

  1. flexor carpi ulnaris
  2. flexor digitorum communis
  3. flexor digitorum profundus
  4. flexor digitorum superficialis
  5. flexorplasties
  6. flexorplasty
  7. flexors
  8. flexplace
  9. flexplate
  10. flexplates
  11. flextension

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