Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

flexor digitorum superficialis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.92 in modern English

Syllables: flex-or dig-i-to-rum -su-per-fi-cialis
IPA

49

Scrabble Score

28

Letters

9

Syllables

16

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A muscle in the intermediate layer of the anterior compartment of the human forearm.

noun

One of the flexor digitorum communis muscles

Etymology

From flexor (muscle that bends) + Latin digitorum (genitive singular; literally "finger") + Latin superficialis (relating to the surface), in all, "surface bending finger muscle".

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: digitorum, superficialis

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Questions

What does flexor digitorum superficialis mean?: A muscle in the intermediate layer of the anterior compartment of the human forearm.
Where does flexor digitorum superficialis come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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