flexorplasty

English

Etymology

From flexor +‎ -plasty.

Noun

flexorplasty (countable and uncountable, plural flexorplasties)

1. Any of various surgical treatments for weakness or limited action of a flexor muscle.
   • 2000, Hideo Kawai, Brachial Plexus Palsy, page 264:

     This flexorplasty was devised by Arthur Steindler in 1918.

   • 2009, Bernard F. Morrey, Joaquin Sanchez-Sotelo, The Elbow and Its Disorders, page 965:

     Carroll and Gartland noted that approximately half of the 23 patients who were improved by the flexorplasty had pronation defects.

   • 2012, Kevin C. Chung, Hand and Wrist Surgery, page 215:

     The mean arc of active flexion after flexorplasty was 95 degrees.