Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A muscle that effects or assists in pronation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A muscle of the forearm whose action pronates the hand or assists in pronation: opposed to supinator.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) A muscle which produces pronation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun anatomy Any muscle that produces pronation

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a muscle that produces or assists in pronation

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Examples

  • He has a torn medial collateral ligament in his left elbow and a torn flexor pronator, which is a muscle in the forearm.

    Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news 2008

  • The Mariners say they'll treat Hernandez's flexor-pronator strain with rest and rehab.

    Fickle pitching injuries leave fantasy owners in limbo 2007

  • If your dogs tend to roll, you're a pronator -- get shoes that compensate for your foot's propensity to tilt in or out, otherwise you may hurt your knees.

    Fitness: Pavement Pounding 2008

  • New shoes are probably helping, despite my being an under-pronator and buying light motion control shoes because I do have flat feet.

    And now I shall drink the world... 2008

  • Example: a pronator that resists undesirable action by a prime mover.

    Muscles Part 1 2008

  • Verett claims that due to the injury she suffered at Pizza Hut, she was unable to avoid falling on a later date and tore tendons and suffered injuries to her left hand and wrist, including a partial tear of the pronator quadratus muscle at the dorsum. emphasis ours.

    $50k For Injury Sustained Holding Open The Door Of A Pizza Hut? - The Consumerist 2007

  • Friend lawyer, the pronator quadratus of your left wrist illustrates such an unnatural growth.

    An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979

  • One of the characteristics of the habitual masturbator is the strengthening, tightening, and overall disproportionate growth of the pronator quadratus, a small quadrangular muscle situated at the distal end of the forearm beneath the tendons of the flexor digitorum profundus and the flexor pollicis longus.

    An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979

  • If it be required to ligature the artery at this locality, an incision two inches and a half in length, made along the course of the vessel, and avoiding the superficial veins, will expose the fascia; and this being next divided on the director, the artery will be exposed resting on the brachialis anticus, and between the biceps tendon and pronator teres muscle.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The ulnar artery, whose origin is seen near F, Plate 16, passes deeply beneath the superficial flexor muscles, L M K, and the pronator teres,

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

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