flexure

1. A curve, turn, or fold, such as a bend in a tubular organ: a flexure of the colon.
2. The act or an instance of bending or flexing; flexion.

noun

The quality or state of being flexible: bounce, ductility, elasticity, flexibility, flexibleness, give, malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness, resilience, resiliency, spring, springiness, suppleness. See flexible/rigid.

The quality or state of being flexed.

The bending of a member, as under a load.

Pertaining to the flexure of a joint.

• f. deformity — fixation of joints in flexion. In the newborn called contracted calves or foals.

  Flexural deformity in a puppy. By permission from Slatter D, Textbook of Small Animal Surgery, Saunders, 2002

• f. seborrhea — dermatitis with heavy outpouring of sebaceous exudate. If allowed to stay wet becomes rancid and develops offensive odor. Common sites for lesion are between halves of udder, between udder and medial aspect of thigh and in axilla. Common only in freshly calved cows.