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Definition of Pronates
1. pronate [v] - See also: pronate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pronates
Literary usage of Pronates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Operative Surgery, Based on Normal and Pathological Anatomy by Joseph-François Malgaigne (1851)
"He grasps the hand as usual, and slightly pronates it, then he plunges a narrow,
double-edged knife, held flat, into the soft parts, and pushes it across ..."
2. Diseases of the Nervous System by John Eastman Wilson (1916)
"Pronator radii teres pronates the hand by moving the radius, to which the hand is
... Pronator quadratus pronates the radius, and therefore the hand. ..."
3. Electro-diagnosis and electrotherapeutics by Toby Cohn (1904)
"It flexes the wrist and the radial side more than the ulnar; also at the same
time it pronates. Its tendon likewise stands out among the flexors of the hand ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1837)
"4. The ventricles gyrate incessantly to and fro upon their axis; a. In systole
or involution, as the left hand pronates ; b. ..."
5. Spiritual Magazine (1877)
"But the softness and delicacy with which he pronates his exordium with mildness
is converted into a sound like thunder when he goes on a few words further ..."
6. Orthopedic Surgery by Edward Hickling Bradford, Robert Williamson Lovett (1915)
"The foot appears highly arched and in weight-bearing pronates less than normal.
The tissues of the sole are therefore subject to constant irritation in ..."
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