Plural of flexure; multiple bends, folds, or joints where bending occurs.
From flexure (a bend), with the regular English plural -s. Widely used in anatomy and geology to refer to multiple bending points or structures.
Your body contains hundreds of flexures—every knuckle, every vertebra, every place where one bone meets another—and they're the reason you can move at all!
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