extensions
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The extensors, the muscles on the front of the thigh commonly referred to as the quadriceps, are the strongest muscle group in the body and have essential influence on gait, other activities and biomechanics.
From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2023
Of particular interest is the relationship between the extensors and the hamstrings, the two most important muscle groups in the knee.
From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2023
A fanatic on physical condition, Coach Kiphuth put Ford through the usual ten weeks of exercises to build belly, back and chest muscles, other exercises to strengthen arm depressors, hip-joint flexors and extensors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course you work your midsection�that�s a given�but most of the exercises should involve the flexors and extensors of your knees and hips, because they�re what you use in skiing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tubby has devised an operation for converting the pronator radii teres into a supinator, and Robert Jones another in which the flexors of the carpus are made to take the place of the extensors.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
