What's the difference between flex and flexion?

Flex


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bend; as, to flex the arm.
  • (n.) Flax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Failure was more likely with a subluxated, tilted, or excessively thick patella or flexed femoral component.
  • (2) Pharmacological actions on the nociceptive flexion flexes of the hindlimb were investigated in 14 normal subjects.
  • (3) But Wawrinka, who seemed to be flexing his knee a moment ago, is making more mistakes.
  • (4) With the whole spine flexed, muscle activity in the cervical erector spinae, trapezius and thoracic erector spinae muscles was higher than when the whole spine was straight and vertical.
  • (5) 'Squeeze' with the left hand followed by 'flex' with the right elbow.
  • (6) The infant, who was utterly small for his gestational age, showed an aberrant motoric pattern and a high forehead, low-set ears, a prominent occiput and scoliosis, an extension defect in the knee joints and flexed, ulnar-deviated wrists.
  • (7) This paper examined the mobility of intervertebral joints in axial rotation in a neutral and in two flexed positions.
  • (8) When the hair is maintained flexed its sensory neurone discharges tonically (Fig.
  • (9) The elongate and slim shape of the trunk provides great mass moments of inertia and that means stability against being flexed ventrally and dorsally by the forward and rearward movements of the heavy and long hindlimbs.
  • (10) On admission, his right hand and all of right fingers were flexed.
  • (11) These tendons pass dorsally from the median nerve through the carpal canal, where the nerve is subject to pressure when the tendons stretch whilst the wrist is flexed.
  • (12) For a nation that has begun to flex its military muscles, its presence on another world perfectly demonstrates its national prowess.
  • (13) An extended position proved to be more successful in demonstrating that finding than the flexed one.
  • (14) Blood pump diaphragms are required to be biocompatible and must be capable of long-term flexing without failure.
  • (15) As the earliest treatment the fixation of the shoulder joint in abduction and external rotation with flexed elbow on a splint as prevention of further stretch on the plexus and contractures seems to be the most important masure; later on a physio-therapy and mobilisation of the joints is of essential importance.
  • (16) At approximately 70% of the fracture load for the 90 degrees flexed knee, nearly 35% of the contact area was exposed to pressures greater than 25 MPa.
  • (17) A separation between the femur and the tibia of 1.3-3.8 mm was found in 3 knees which were slightly flexed during the traction.
  • (18) Cholesterol and stigmastanol are largely buried in the hydrocarbon part of the membrane, distinctly restricting the flexing motions of the fatty acyl chains whereas the conformation of the phospholipid headgroups is little affected.
  • (19) After ingesting even a small amount of sucrose, the fly begins making frequent, tight turns, flexes its front tarsi to bring more chemosensory hairs into contact with the substrate and repeatedly extends and retracts its proboscis.
  • (20) Another case confirmed that an abduction force on the flexed hip can produce anterior dislocation of the hip.

Flexion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of flexing or bending; a turning.
  • (n.) A bending; a part bent; a fold.
  • (n.) Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comparisons of ICR locations were made between flexion and extension, between left and right limbs, and between living and dead dogs, using analysis of variance.
  • (2) Unrecognized flexion injuries of the cervical spine may lead to late instability and neurologic damage.
  • (3) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
  • (4) The technique of two-plane angiography of femoro-popliteal bypasses with 90 degrees knee flexion is described.
  • (5) Physiotherapy for 4 to 12 weeks produced improvement, but in four cases early operation for excision of fibrous tissue and lengthening of the triceps was necessary to restore adequate flexion.
  • (6) Tension in flexor tendons during wrist flexion may play a role in otherwise unexplained instances of the carpal tunnel syndrome.
  • (7) Five cases of bilateral abduction contracture of the shoulder in adults including the first case of bilateral abduction contractures of shoulder and hip plus bilateral flexion contracture of elbow and extension contracture of a knee are reported.
  • (8) We found that the Gallie system generally allowed significantly more rotation in flexion, extension, axial rotation, and lateral bending than the other three fixation techniques.
  • (9) The lower neck flexion is 35 degrees and extension of the plane of the face 15 degrees, each angle measured relative to horizontal.
  • (10) Flexion of the knee beyond 40 degrees progressively diminished viability of the edges of the wound, particularly the lateral edge.
  • (11) Intertester reliability for measurements obtained with a goniometer was .90 for flexion and .86 for extension.
  • (12) In these three patients, laxity of the knee in flexion was so severe that posterior instability could not be corrected merely by patellar relocation.
  • (13) X-ray study of this region in lateral projection was did, in neutral position and flexion-extension of the neck.
  • (14) The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a control group of fifty subjects.
  • (15) Although the entire cohort of neck patients, regardless of group assignment, improved significantly on all the outcome variables over the 6-week period, patients receiving intermittent traction performed significantly better than those assigned to the no traction group in terms of pain (P = 0.03), forward flexion (P = 0.01), right rotation (P = 0.004) and left rotation (P = 0.05).
  • (16) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
  • (17) By placing the thigh in external flexion-rotation the deep femoral artery can readily be approached downstream the first perforating artery.
  • (18) Whereas in flexion stress all methods showed a sufficient stability, the rotation tests proved, that in case of a dorsal instability of the lower cervical spine, posterior interlaminar wiring or anterior plate stabilization showed no reliable stabilization effect.
  • (19) In severely impaired limbs, there was a marked shift in both the peak EMG angle and the angular domain of EMG activity for both biceps and triceps muscle groups, away from the normal elbow flexion-extension axis towards external humeral rotation and shoulder girdle elevation.
  • (20) On physical examination the patients complained of pain on both passive flexion and internal rotation of the hip, and when the thigh was pushed backwards at 90 degrees of flexion.