Usually means: Muscles flexing fingers, extending interphalangeal joints.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. lumbrical: Collins English Dictionary
  2. lumbrical: Wordnik
  3. lumbrical: Wiktionary
  4. lumbrical: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. lumbrical: Dictionary.com
  6. Lumbrical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. lumbrical: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Lumbrical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. lumbrical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. lumbrical: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Lumbrical: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lumbrical: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. lumbrical: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (lumbrical)

adjective:  Worm-like.
noun:  (anatomy) Any of the four small muscles of the palm of the hand that arise from tendons of the flexor digitorum profundus, are inserted at the base of the digit to which the tendon passes, and flex the proximal phalanx and extend the two distal phalanges of each finger.
noun:  (anatomy) Any of four small muscles of the foot homologous to the lumbricals of the hand that arise from tendons of the flexor digitorum longus and are inserted into the first phalanges of the four small toes of which they flex the proximal phalanges and extend the two distal phalanges.

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