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- verb Present participle of
pronate .
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Examples
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She rotated the ankle, first to the left, then right, holding his toes and flexing and then pronating the foot.
Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010
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She rotated the ankle, first to the left, then right, holding his toes and flexing and then pronating the foot.
Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010
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I notice that 43 is pronating his left foot significantly so his posture was probably in motion when the picture was taken.
Let's analyze the photograph of the presidents. Ann Althouse 2009
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I'm thinking that maybe the heels on her shoes are worn unevenly and she is increasingly pronating.
Clinical Case: Leg Pain (Part 1) 1 Dinosaur 2008
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He made me walk up and down the room and put me on the treadmill and decided that I do not, in fact, have pronating problems, and suggested New Balance or Saucony.
Archive 2006-03-01 Becca 2006
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He made me walk up and down the room and put me on the treadmill and decided that I do not, in fact, have pronating problems, and suggested New Balance or Saucony.
Decisions Becca 2006
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The Flexor carpi radialis is a flexor and abductor of the wrist; it also assists in pronating the hand, and in bending the elbow.
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This is usually easily done by flexing the elbow, making slight traction on the forearm, and alternately pronating and supinating it.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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_ As a rule in the fore-arm, the surgeon should endeavour to save as much as possible; especially when nearing the middle of the fore-arm, he should try to save the insertion of the pronator teres, so important in its function of pronating the radius.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874
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Anyone whose foot rolls inward (pronation) during a stride is a candidate, but the real high risk for runners are people with extremely flat feet, a large, pronating forefoot, or a so-called "Morton's foot" (where the second toe is longer than the first, causing an exaggerated pronation).
NYDN Rss Dr Lewis Maharam 2011
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