Extendens
Extendens is a Latin term derived from extendere, meaning “to stretch out.” As a present participle, extendens translates roughly as “extending” or “one that extends.” In scholarly contexts, extendens is not a standard modern term; it occurs mainly in historical Latin texts as a descriptive descriptor for structures that extend a joint or for extending actions.
In anatomy, extensor muscles are responsible for increasing the angle of a joint. In older treatises, some
Outside anatomy, extendens has no widely used technical meaning. It may appear in Latin phrases within philosophical
Etymology: from Latin extendere “to stretch,” with extendens meaning “stretching” or “extending.”
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