Synonyms for "supination" (21 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (5)

bendbobbowcrouchcurtsy

Strong matches (6)

duckgenuflectionintroversionkowtownodobeisance

Related words (10)

prostrationretroflexionreverencereversalreversionrevulsionsalaamsquatstooptransposition

Related word relations

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8 relation types

More general

2 entries

rotary motionrotation

Antonyms

1 entries

pronation

Related terms

3 entries

pronationsemi-supinationsupine

derived

1 entries

oversupination

derived from

1 entries

supine

has context

2 entries

anatomyfencing

is a

1 entries

rotation

related to

8 entries

adductionforearminversionpalmpronationrotatesemi supinationsupine

Translations

8 translations across 3 languages.

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Finnish

4 entries

• selinmakuu noun (act or state of lying face upward)
• selällään makaaminen noun (act or state of lying face upward)
• supinaatio noun (anatomy: act of rotating the forearm so that the palm is turned up or forward)
• supinaatio noun (anatomy: act or state of combined adduction and inversion of the foot)

French

1 entries

• supination noun (anatomy: act of rotating the forearm so that the palm is turned up or forward)

Polish

2 entries

• podchwyt noun (anatomy: act of rotating the forearm so that the palm is turned up or forward)
• supinacja noun (anatomy: act of rotating the forearm so that the palm is turned up or forward)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Pronation and supination are two opposite movements.

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