Flexion and extension to their full extent, with a very considerable amount of pronation and supination, are to be expected, with proper care, in a patient of average intelligence.
The hand placed horizontally, the back uppermost pirouetting on the wrist alternately in pronation and supination, thus passing from force to feebleness and from feebleness to force, characterizes irritability.
By presenting the hand in pronation or supination horizontally, without spreading or folding the fingers, we shall have that attitude which signifies abandon.
Compression is made and the limb steadied as before; the surgeon with his left hand grasps the wrist, and places the forearm in the middle state between pronation and supination.
When both have given way, slight extension is required, and the forearm is placed in the middle state between pronation and supination.
The manus is often capable of the movements of pronation and supination, and the scaphoid, lunar and centrale are in living forms always united together.
In the lower Primates, although the radius and ulna are always quite separate, the power of pronation and supination is not nearly so great as in the higher forms.
Examination December 30 showed a normal elbow movement, pronation and supination, with slight flexion in repose of the palm of the hand and the fingers.
The forearms would fall into a lively shaking movement of pronation and supination.
Pronation and supination were almost impossible, as well as extension of the hand and fingers and abduction of the thumb.
No exaggerated eyebrow lowered; there may be flexion of forearm, and no exaggerated flexion of the pronation sign.
But the muscular prominence is formed by the united radial extensors, and the fossette, because of the permanent pronation of the forearm, is scarcely recognisable.
Accordingly, it is pronation which here, in connection with animals, becomes the standard attitude from the point of view of description.
The fracture healed well, but the resulting mass of callus at the end of three months prevented any movements of pronation or supination.
The prognosis must be guarded, especially with regard to the preservation ofpronation and supination.
The splints are applied with the elbow flexed to a right angle, and, except when the radius is broken above the level of the insertion of the pronator teres, with the forearm midway between pronation and supination.
The movements of the head of the radius are best detected by pressing the thumb of one hand into the depression below the lateral epicondyle, while movements of pronation and supination are carried out by the other hand.
In other cases the four broken ends impinge upon the interosseous space, and may become united to one another, preventing the movements of pronation and supination.
In spastic paralysis the most pronounced deformity is flexion of the forearm and pronation and flexion of the hand (Fig.
In patients who cannot walk, ataxia may be tested by ordering repeated pronation and supination of the forearm.
In addition to the ordinary signs of fracture, there is partial or complete loss of pronation and supination.
In some cases the callus fuses the two bones across the interosseous space, and pronation and supination are rendered impossible.
The elbow is held fixed at an angle of about 120°, pronated or midway between pronation and supination.
When exuberant callus forms between the bones in fractures of the forearm, pronation and supination may be interfered with (Fig.
The child complains of pain in the region of the elbow: the arm at once becomes useless, and is held flexed, midway between pronation and supination.
In eversion the lateral edge of the foot is drawn up, the sole looking away from the middle line--analogous topronation of the hand.
The elbow is flexed at a right angle, and the forearm supported in a sling midway between pronation and supination.
In most Mammals the wrist is divided into two lateral parts, as it is in the human foetus, but free pronation and supination seem to cause the disappearance of the septum.
It may be roughly stated that, when pronation and supination to the extent of a quarter of a circle are possible, an orbicular ligament appears.
The movements allowed at these three articulations are called pronation and supination of the radius.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pronation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
