Term: dorsiflexion: the act of bending backward (of the body or a body part)
Broader: flexion: act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Unrelated: bed: the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
Broader: flexion: act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Unrelated: achilles tendon: a large tendon that runs from the heel to the calf
Broader: flexion: act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Unrelated: constructiveness: the quality of serving to build or improve
Broader: flexion: act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Unrelated: objection: (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality
Broader: flexion: act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Unrelated: tinea: infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches
Broader: flexion: act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Unrelated: pezizales: order of mostly saprophytic fungi having cup-shaped ascocarps
Broader: flexion: act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Unrelated: irony: a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
Broader: flexion: act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Unrelated: sensitive plant: prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled
Broader: flexion: act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Unrelated: file clerk: a clerk who is employed to maintain the files of an organization
Broader: flexion: act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Unrelated: indian paintbrush: any of various plants of the genus Castilleja having dense spikes of hooded flowers with brightly colored bracts