Definitions
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- verb medicine To
extend a joint beyond its normal position in a way that stresses theligaments , often causing injury
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- verb extend a joint beyond its normal range
Etymologies
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Examples
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Do not hyperextend your elbow joint during the movement.
Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy JJ Virgin 2010
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I hyperextend, as the muscles are pulled longer than they are supposed to be, this causes muscle pain, and my knees to go backward, and my shoulder to dislocate more often than others.
4 paragraphs to explain my disease plus: Love a Puffin, Masturbate and living. Elizabeth McClung 2009
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So there I'd be, explaining the best way to hyperextend a kneecap while telling about David bringing down old Goliath and how that fight was worth something.
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It is very often seen in new moms because they hyperextend the thumb when holding their baby's head.
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My joints hyperextend, and they -- they move too much.
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I hyperextend, as the muscles are pulled longer than they are supposed to be, this causes muscle pain, and my knees to go backward, and my shoulder to dislocate more often than others.
Archive 2009-12-01 Elizabeth McClung 2009
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Riding head first can lead to a brain injury, and it's a good way to hyperextend the neck, says Kate Cronan, the head of emergency medicine at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del.
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Gross, who was on the Chargers 'practice squad last year, appeared to hyperextend his right knee at the end of an 8-yard carry. ...
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Then there are his freak-of-nature traits, such as his elbows, which hyperextend a good 10 degrees past level, and his serpentine toes, which are, in a word, gross.
MIGHTY MICHAEL 2007
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Sleeping in odd positions — the child may arch his neck backwards (hyperextend) in order to open the airway or sleep sitting up.
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