PRONATION
\pɹənˈe͡ɪʃən], \pɹənˈeɪʃən], \p_ɹ_ə_n_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of PRONATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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The act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward.
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The position of the limb resulting from the act of pronation. Opposed to supination.
By Oddity Software
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Applies to movements of the forearm in turning the palm backward or downward or when applied to the foot, a combination of eversion and abduction movements in the tarsal and metatarsal joints, (turning the foot up and in toward the midline of the body).
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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The act of turning the palm downwards; the position of the hand when the palm is turned downwards. See Prone.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In anat., the act by which the palm of the hand is turned downwards, with the thumb towards the body; the position of the hand so turned.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Anatomists understand, by pronation, the motion by which the inferior extremity of the radius passes before the ulna, and thus causes the band to execute a kind of rotation from without inwards.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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