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  • In 2009, these site-specific attractions will feature Wise Fool New Mexico's "Flexion," a show that will stretch your perception of the human body, set on Seattle Center's Fountain Lawn.

    Seattle Metblogs 2009

  • By the way, according to Morphologie: ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbildung, Japanese zibun is *not* a reflexive pronoun because it doesn't show "morphological variation" and "cooccurs with all variants of person and number of its formal antecedent".

    Lehmann's dismissal of PIE *swe 2008

  • The second section, "Hell Spit Flexion," provides a second vision of Hell, and a much more terrifying one.

    10/25: Portrait of Jason; Brakhage shorts Ed Howard 2007

  • The second section, "Hell Spit Flexion," provides a second vision of Hell, and a much more terrifying one.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ed Howard 2007

  • Flexion is a change from a right line to an arc or an angle, straightening a change from either of these to a right line.

    On the Gait of Animals 2002

  • Flexion is a change from a right line to an arc or an angle, straightening a change from either of these to a right line.

    On the Gait of Animals 2002

  • Flexion of this, the humeroradioulnar joint (elbow), is restrained by the triceps brachii and extension is checked by the biceps brachii (flexor brachii).

    Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

  • Flexion of the elbow is avoided because contraction of the biceps brachii (flexor brachii) or the extensors, which are antagonists of the flexors of the carpus, tenses the carpal flexors and pain is thereby increased.

    Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

  • Flexion and extension of the joint are then to be practised three or four times (to assure complete reduction?), and the forearm flexed and supported by a bandage from the neck.

    Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

  • Flexion of the leg upon the thigh, and flexion of the foot upon the front of the tibia.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various

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