The tighter cap would wiggle when Grimes flexed his facial muscles to prepare the spitter.

Clinically spasticity is defined as velocity dependent resistance to stretch, where a lack of inhibition results in excessive contraction of the muscles, ultimately leading to hyperflexia ( overly flexed joints ).

It is effective mainly when those muscles have already partially flexed at the elbow.

The structure of the neck is as in other species of darter with strongly developed muscles about a kink in the neck at the 8th and 9th vertebrae that allows it to be flexed and darted forward with rapid force to stab fish underwater.

This technique requires stronger triceps muscles than regular push-ups due to the fact that, at the bottom of the stroke, the forearm is nearly parallel to the ground and the elbow is almost completely flexed, resulting in much higher mechanical load on the triceps.

' They said take off your shirt, so I did and flexed my muscles.

Beginning with legs flexed, the legs can be extended slowly to increase the difficulty of the movement ( and tension on the core muscles ) due to moving the weight further from the levers.

Longtime member Jon " Bowzer " Bauman replaced Alan Cooper and became a recognizable member of the group as he taunted audiences while he flexed his muscles, burped and spat in the direction of the bass player.

The arms and hands are generally long ( though very reduced in some advanced species ) and the shoulder girdle is large and massive, with flexed coracoid bones and prominent attachments for strong arm muscles.

The skeletal ( bones, cartilage, and ligaments ) and muscular ( muscles and tendons ) systems work together to move the joint into a " flexed " position.

* When the feet are not on the floor, they are pointed except when playing unusual characters ( as above ) for which the feet may be flexed.

In 1868, before the advent of powered aircraft, English inventor Matthew Piers Watt Boulton patented the first aileron-type device for lateral control via ' flexed ' wings.

There are 18 such possible configurations for triangles with different colors, and they can be seen by flexing the hexahexaflexagon in all possible ways in theory, but only 15 can be flexed by the ordinary hexahexaflexagon.

This can make them useful for situations in which the trachea is anticipated to remain intubated for a prolonged duration, or if the neck is to remain flexed during surgery.

After having flexed his political muscle by " bolting " from the campaign for a few weeks, he put his support behind the Republican nomination of Jacob Stewart, a medical doctor from St. Paul, who won the election against the Democrat William McNair.

The calculation for the mesomorphy rating is based on the measurements of height, breadths of the humerus and femur, and girths of the biceps ( flexed and relaxed ) and calf.

This can make them useful for situations in which the trachea is anticipated to remain intubated for a prolonged duration, or if the neck is to remain flexed during surgery.

Field boots: so called because they were traditionally worn by officers ranked " field grade " or higher, have lacing at the vamp, which allows for some give so the rider is more comfortable riding with the highly flexed ankle that develops from the shorter stirrup length required for work over fences.

The notochord is a flexible rod that runs along the back of the animal, lengthening and stiffening the body so that it can be flexed from side to side by the muscle blocks for swimming.

On 30 July 1919, Rouse was examined again by an unsympathetic doctor who observed that he was now in no disability from his head wound, and that while Rouse wouldn't allow his knee to be flexed by more than 30 %, there was no physical reason for the limitation and the doctor ascribed it to neurosis.

If you jacked up one corner of the car, to change a tire, for example, the frame flexed so much that you could either not open the door or could not close it.

He was small for a major-college guard, slow without any compensatory quickness and strong only because he ate and flexed himself up to 185 pounds from 150 as a freshman.

Sometimes, games will be flexed due to a team's success ; for instance, the 2007 matchup between the New England Patriots and Buffalo Bills at Ralph Wilson Stadium was flexed due to the Patriots ' potential run at an undefeated regular season that they eventually completed.

It also increases the potential for teams to play on consecutive Sunday nights, as the 2007 Patriots, 2007 Washington Redskins, and 2008 Giants did ( the Patriots hosted the Philadelphia Eagles the week following the second matchup with the Bills as scheduled, the Redskins were flexed into a matchup with the Giants and played the Vikings in a regularly scheduled matchup the week after, and the Giants hosted the Panthers one week after playing the Dallas Cowboys in Texas Stadium.

Inhumation was in separate cemeteries, in the flexed position with apparently no preference for which side the deceased was laid out in.

The United States, itself a former colony and emerging colonial power in its own right, flexed its new influence in support of the decolonisation process, for example supporting prominent Arab nationalist Nasser during the Suez Crisis in 1956, often cited as the last gasp of European colonialism.

Manufacturers recommend that the risers be disconnected from the harness and flexed, the rings should be checked for cracks or corrosion and the cable should be removed from the housing, cleaned and lubricated, typically with silicone based lubricant.

The theory for an intrusive culture is based upon the physical type of the population, flexed burial under barrows, the presence of battle-axes and ceramics.

It can be distinguished as a zone where the cortex narrows into a single layer of densely packed pyramidal neurons 3-6 cells deep in rats, which curl into a tight U shape ; one edge of the " U ," field CA4, is embedded into a backward facing strongly flexed V-shaped cortex, the dentate gyrus.

When the string is released, the kinetic energy of the flexed stick is transformed into the velocity of the arrow.

Punitive raids into neighbouring areas, including Wales and Northumbria, followed as the kingdom flexed its new military power.

The upper limb on the same side is also adducted at the shoulder, flexed at the elbow, and pronated at the wrist with the thumb tucked into the palm and the fingers curled around it.

* Brudzinski's reflex, in which passive flexion of one knee into the abdomen leads to involuntary flexion in the opposite leg, and stretching of a limb that was flexed leads to contralateral extension.

This win flexed the following week's matchup, where the Giants hosted the Cowboys, into NBC's slot.

" " Surely you don't mean the discus-thrower ," said I, " the one bent over into the throwing-position, with his head turned back to the hand that holds the discus, and the opposite knee slightly flexed, like one who will spring up again after the throw?

The other hand is then placed on the back of the opponent's head and pushes the opponent's head and neck forward into the crook of the flexed arm.

If the fingers are already flexed, then a solid bullet shows that they squeeze.

He looked down at his big hands and slowly flexed his long fingers.

For racing bikes where the rider is bent over, weight is more evenly distributed between the handlebars and saddle, the hips are flexed, and a narrower and harder saddle is more efficient.

In a cabled system, the cables need to be flexed every time that a card is added or removed from the system ; this flexing eventually causes mechanical failures.

Decorticate posturing is a stereotypical posturing in which the patient has arms flexed at the elbow, and arms adducted toward the body, with both legs extended.

This is similar to a rising side kick, only with the kicking leg's hip flexed so that the line of force travels parallel to the ground from front to side rather than straight up, beginning and ending at the side.

The skipper recorded that the keel bowed upwards as much as 20mm and the gunwhale flexed inwards as much as 150mm in heavy seas.

Many sports still use leather to help in playing the game or protecting players ; its flexibility allows it to be formed and flexed.

In single crystal form, silicon is an almost perfect Hookean material, meaning that when it is flexed there is virtually no hysteresis and hence almost no energy dissipation.

Two flexed burials were found in period II with a covering of red ochre on the body.

* Range of motion, the distance and direction a joint can move between the flexed position and the extended position.

When standing on the board it is flexed down at the contact points by your weight, but can easily be lifted by shifting your weight off either foot.

* A square represents a closed fist, with the knuckles of the flexed fingers bent 90 ° so that the fingers touch the palm and the thumb lies over the fingers.

* A circle represents an " open fist ", a hand where the thumb and fingers are flexed so as to touch at their tips.

A solid bullet represents flexing the middle joint of a finger or fingers, and a hollow bullet represents straightening a flexed finger.

This leads to the familiar triple jump mid-air position, with the right take off leg trailing flexed at the knee and the left leg now leading flexed at the hip and knee.

Each group of wires is wound in a helix so that when the wire is flexed, the part of a bundle that is stretched moves around the helix to a part that is compressed to allow the wire to have less stress.

This is particularly noticeable when trying to extend the third digit ( middle finger ) with the others flexed.

The main purpose of the gel is to prevent water intrusion if the buffer tube is breached, but the gel also buffers the fibers against mechanical damage when the tube is bent around corners during installation, or flexed.

This was thought to be possible only if the bowler's elbow was originally held in a slightly flexed position.

The numbness often occurs at night, with the hypothesis that the wrists are held flexed during sleep.