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Definition of Hyperextend
1. Verb. Extend a joint beyond its normal range. "Don't hyperextend your elbow"
Derivative terms: Hyperextension
Definition of Hyperextend
1. Verb. (medicine) To extend a joint beyond its normal position in a way that stresses the ligaments, often causing injury ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hyperextend
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperextend
Literary usage of Hyperextend
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"Thus, to luxate the fingers, hyperextend; to luxate the elbow, hyperextend; to
luxate the jaw, practically hyperextend ; to luxate the shoulder, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"Then have the patient lie face downward on the bed and grasp the foot on the
affected side and forcibly hyperextend the leg; this causes acute pain in the ..."
3. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1992)
"This maneuver should not hyperextend the head, and it is the method of choice if
a cervical spine injury is suspected because it does not risk compromising ..."
4. A Treatise on Orthopaedic Surgery by Royal Whitman (1919)
"In such exercises the most important postures are those which hyperextend the spine.
The constant effort should be to make motion in one direction as free ..."
5. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1921)
"... it is at a right angle, as the patient uses the foot as a rocker anteroposteriorly,
and is not obliged either to rotate his hip or hyperextend his knee. ..."
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