'Flexor' muscles contract to bend the limb, and 'extensor' muscles contract to extend the limb.
In human beings it is characterized by involuntary bending of the limbs and a spasmodic avoidance movement of the head.
On sandpaper, a claw at the wrist engaged irregularities and propelled the animal forward; during thrust the shoulder rotated towards the body and the wrist did not bend keeping the limb fully extended.
The following press release was issued today by the European Southern Observatory. 100 years ago, two expeditions set out for Principe Island off the coast of Africa and Sobral in Brazil to observe the 1919 solar eclipse, with the goal of testing general relativity by seeing if starlight would be bent around the limb of the sun, as predicted by Einstein.
One could also stimulate the lowering of the CoMgl by asking the patient to further bend the lower limb while reaching as far as possible with the free limb.
Samsa becomes a pop-culture sensation -- 1920's flappers bend their limbs to a new dance, "the Gregor".
The music starts and the dancers bend, torsos and limbs tortuous and twirling, moving slowly into what appears to be a vine's tendril, or the twisted trunk of a tree.
Inevitably, the boldest ones among them, boys in identical blue-and-white uniforms down to the plastic slippers they flapped on their feet, would bend their limbs in imitation of their favorite break-dance moves.
In a town where various consultants will tell you what to eat, when to bend your limbs, where to put your money and, above all, how to write a screenplay, Mr. Perez is emerging as the guru of "Concept Modeling".
If the limbs do not bend equally, shave the side that bends the least a little thinner so the finished crutch is symmetrical.
