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Examples of flexed

flexed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Although these appear flexed, details of the forearms and hands are obliterated.
It involves slow, weightshifting movements, carried out with the hips and knees held flexed.
The flexed bedding indicates that the sands were partly or wholly liquidized when deformed.
The body was on its left side in a flexed position with the head pointing south.
They were all in a flexed position, but without standardisation in orientation.
The pit could have once held the flexed remains of an adult, although it contained no traces of bone.
Conversely, in the second one, the biped has a flexed stance leg and its ankle joint is locked.
The burials included individuals in flexed, seated, and prone positions.
The shaft is slightly flexed, so that the lateral side is convex and the medial side concave.
To achieve sufficient leverage the assistant should begin with a flexed elbow and be able to sharply extend the forearm as firm pressure is applied.
Once the elbow is flexed, the operator continues to guide the hand around the elbow to grasp the forearm and wrist as described above.
Adaxial two-thirds of anterior border straight, flexed backwards and downwards abaxially, thickened at fulcrum.
The head is rotated to the direct occipito-anterior position and then kept flexed before displacement back into the pelvis.
Patients often adopt a flexed 'simian' posture, which can increase lumbar canal diameter and relieve symptoms.
A fifth individual was placed in a flexed position, leaning against the northeastern wall.
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